‘The Taliban threatened to be head me and my family’

BETRAYAL OF THE BRAVE

RESIGNED AFTER FAMILY PLEA 31: HAMIDULLAH, 33.

He was on the front line from 2006 to 2009 and targeted by the Taliban near his home. He resigned when his family pleaded with him to quit after death threats. The married father of four girls says he was refused help because of a lack of evidence he was a target.

NEPHEW, NINE, WAS EXECUTED 37: AHMAD, 33.

He spent three years on the front line and was a supervisor for other translators in Helmand at the height of the fighting. He left in 2010 because of death threats, and claimed his nine-year-old nephew was snatched from the streets and executed by the Taliban because of his work.

BANISHED FROM HIS OWN VILLAGE 43: ROOHULLAH, 31.

He was a patrol translator in Helmand from 2011 to 2013 until his contract was terminated after a mobile phone — a device often used to detonate IEDs — was found with interpreters on the base. Claims he is unable to go home to his rural village because of his work with British forces.

MEDIA STAR GOT DEATH THREATS 32: SULTANI, 66.

Worked from 2009 to 2014 out of Kabul. He began as an interpreter but graduated to presenting British Army broadcasts out of Camp Bastion in Helmand. Because of his high profile, the father of two says he received death threats but has been refused UK entry.

MARKED MAN WHO CANNOT GET WORK 38: EZATULLAH, 42.

He was a patrol interpreter in Helmand from 2006 to 2009 and left after receiving death threats. He says he handed letters threatening his life to the British and Afghan authorities and that he has survived a Taliban attempt to kill him. He is now a marked man, so is unable to find work.

SUFFERED INJURIES IN PATROL ATTACK 44: MOQIM, 37.

With frontline patrols in Helmand from 2005 to 2008. Blown up and injured on one patrol. He was also attacked at his home in a village near Kabul — he believes by Islamic State — but was rescued by Afghan police. Married with children, he fled to India but was unable to stay.

EIGHT-YEAR STINT BUT GIVEN NO HELP 33: AHMADZAI, 36.

Worked for eight years based at Camp Bastion until his contract was not renewed in 2014. The married father of four daughters and one son was told he was refused relocation as he was not a front-line translator, despite reporting death threats.

TARGETED BY FORMER PRISONERS 39: MOHIBULLAH, 45.

Worked in Helmand 20092010 before leaving because of death threats to his brother. His job included screening Taliban prisoners, a role marking him out for possible attacks. He has had to move with his wife and five children from his village near the Pakistan border.

KNIFE ATTACK AND BROTHER KILLED 45: HEDAYATULLAH, 33.

Spent nine years as an interpreter, including 19 months in Helmand. His brother was murdered by the Taliban as they could not find Hedayatullah, who also survived a beating and knife attack. Married with a son and daughter, he now works with British forces through a private company.

BROTHER KILLED BY A SNIPER 34: FARZAD, 27.

From 2010 to 2015 he worked for the British military at Camp Souter in Kabul. His brother, a translator, was shot dead by a Taliban sniper and Farzad got death threats. Married with a daughter and a one-yearold son, he was told he did not qualify for relocation.

TRANSLATOR FOR FOUR GENERALS 40: NAWAZ, 29.

A translator for four British generals in his four years with the British Army, much of it spent in Helmand with Special Forces’ Tiger Teams. Nawaz, married with five children, left when his contract ran out, and he has been informed he does not qualify for relocation.

TOO WELL-KNOWN TO RISK WORK 46: SIDDIQUI, 40.

He was a patrol interpreter based in Kabul between 2002 and 2007. The married father of two claims to be unable to work because he is so well known. He has to change his address regularly and his two children cannot go to school. Relocation to UK turned down because he wasn’t based in Helmand.

CONDEMNED AS A ‘SLAVE OF INFIDELS’ 35: KHAN, 36.

Served for three years before leaving in 2010. Married with a son, he was shot by the Taliban while on the front line and resigned because of threats to his family by insurgents. One particularly sinister warning posted at his local mosque called him a ‘slave of the infidels’.

RECEIVED WARNING ABOUT EXECUTION 41: QAIS, 40.

Worked for ten years as a night translator at Camp Souter until 2012. He says he resigned because of death threats, which he reported to the British. He claims he had been warned that the Taliban had said they would ‘behead me and my dependants’ if they found him.

PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE ENEMY 47: SADAT, 38.

Worked from 2006 to 2012 on the front line and in Kabul. Married with a son and daughter, he claims he was told by the British Military Police that he had been photographed by the Taliban and his life was in danger. He received death threats but was told he could not come to the UK.

RELATIVES SHOT IN RETRIBUTION 36: AKBAR, 35.

Left after three years because of death threats in 2007 after his teenage cousin and uncle were shot by the Taliban as punishment for his work with the British — an attack acknowledged by Task Force Helmand. The father of five has had to move frequently.

EXPECTANT FATHER A TALIBAN TARGET 42: HAMID, 42.

Worked between 2009 and 2011 on the front line and then for six years for UK diplomats in Kabul. With British and Afghan forces on a patrol when a Taliban IED killed three soldiers and injured two. He says he has been warned he is a Taliban target. His wife is pregnant with their first child.

FAMILY PAIN FOR PM’S INTERPRETER 48: AYUOB, 30.

Operated in Helmand from 2008 to 2009 and translated for the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown during a visit to a British camp. Claims he resigned under pressure from his family after his brother was kidnapped and beaten by the Taliban. He reported it to the British but they could not help.