A former Canadian Armed Forces military interpreter has been arrested by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, CBC News has learned.
“One morning I went to the [gym] with my father,” said Basir Ahmad Azizi, the son of Bashir Ahmad Azizi, who worked as a CAF interpreter until at least 2007 at Kandahar Airfield when the Canadian military was posted there with other western coalition forces.
Azizi says Taliban gunmen showed up while his father was taking a break and handcuffed him.
The son fled to a nearby canteen and waited for fifteen minutes to make sure they were gone before he emerged, he told CBC
