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In a Kabul under Taliban control, Philly-area Quakers try to get one man out to safety

Bashir is in hiding but still in touch with the Plymouth Friends Meeting as recently as Monday.

From left to right, David Miller, Carla Butler, and her husband, David DiFabio, gather outside the Plymouth Meeting Friends Meetinghouse to listen on the car radio to President Biden's address to the nation on the situation in Afghanistan. The Plymouth Meeting Quaker church is desperate to help an Afghan interpreter who put his life at risk by working for the U.S. military.
From left to right, David Miller, Carla Butler, and her husband, David DiFabio, gather outside the Plymouth Meeting Friends Meetinghouse to listen on the car radio to President Biden's address to the nation on the situation in Afghanistan. The Plymouth Meeting Quaker church is desperate to help an Afghan interpreter who put his life at risk by working for the U.S. military.Read moreSTEVEN M. FALK / Staff Photographer