Missouri prosecutors want to help Afghan prosecutors get out

Prosecutors in Missouri are rallying around former prosecutors in Afghanistan who are trying to flee the Taliban-run government. 

Darrell Moore is Executive Director of the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys. 

He says they’re trying to get as many American-trained prosecutors out of Afghanistan as quickly as possible:

According to Moore:   “We estimate that about 6,000 Afghans were trained by us or our allies on how to run a justice system similar to ours and were specifically trained in the role of prosecution and prosecutors in the justice system.”

Moore says they helped convict 50-thousand members of the Taliban and other terrorist groups. 

But since the Taliban regained control of the government two years ago, the prosecutors had to go into hiding and are now being hunted down.