They fought next to him against the Taliban confused on Terror, and now a deeply sad group of green berets demands justice for their Afghan ‘brother’ and refugee whose murderer remains free after he has shot him over a parking space.
Abdul Rahman Waziri, a 31-year-old father of two, was shot after an argument about parking in his apartment complex in Houston, Texas, last month after surviving years of disarming Ied’s and fierce firefights against terrorists in Afghanistan before he moved to the US as refugees in 2021.
“Abdul Rahman was literally willing to put down his life for us – for us, for Americans,” Green Beret Ben Hoffman told The Post. “He was a lion. He was a warrior. He was a hero.”
That is why Hoffman said he and others in the army who served with Waziri, An alum of the elite Afghan National Mine Removal Groupare appealed about how he was killed and furious about the lack of justice in the aftermath of his meaningless death.
The deadly fight over the parking lot ended when the shooter walked away, just to go to his car to get his gun, said Waziri’s family lawyer, Omar Khawaja, with reference to witnesses.
Waziri put his hands up and expressed his last words: “Please, don’t shoot” before he was shot several times, according to the lawyer.
Security cameras obtained by the post shows the alleged murderer Walking away from the shooting, with a bag of McDonald’s.
The Houston police did not make any arrests in the murder after the public prosecutor of Harris County refused to accuse the shooter, who had called 911 and reportedly confessed.
Cops said on Monday that the investigation is underway, while the shooter remains free and lives in the apartment complex again.
“We hope that the correct decision will be made here,” said Khawaja about the possibility that charges will be lodged in the incident.
The suspect, who was not identified by civil servants, called the police and turned in. He was interrogated and then let go – surpass the family and the members of the small but growing Afghan community in Houston, many of them soldiers such as Waziri who fought with us special troops.
“To see such a man, a lion of a man, a man among men, to go to Houston from all places and to shoot no reason, it makes me furious,” Hoffman said. “If he were shot in the province Logar, it might have been different. Do you want to kill one of our guys? It would be a hunting kill mission until we found the man who did it.”
As angry as he is, Hoffman said he would never consider taking revenge.
“It’s not what Abdul Rahman would like,” he said. “He was a peacemaker. He was a warrior, but he wanted to bring peace,” he added.
Another member of the army that fought next to Waziri agreed.
“They were us. Without them we were nothing,” said Jay, a combat engineer who worked closely with Waziri and other Afghan subjects. “They were one of us. They were our brothers.”
Jay, who refused to use his name out of security problems, said that he cannot wrap his head for the irony that Waziri has fled the infamous brutal Taliban in his home country to just be shot in the streets of Houston – where his death did not get a second thought.
“It makes no sense. This man needs justice, I don’t know how to say it differently. It must be told to the F -King world, it is really bad. If I went back to Afghanistan tomorrow, I would take Mr. Waziri, man.”
Abdullah Khan, the biological brother of Waziri, was also a member of the Mine Removal team.
“We did serious missions, we went to some spicy places with Americans, we fought against the Taliban, but also Isis,” he said.
He said in the chaos of the American withdrawal from Kabul in August 2021, Waziri had to leave his wife and newborn baby. His flight to the US left only two hours before a suicide bomber blew himself up at Kabul airport.
Waziri’s wife and baby later came to him in Texas, where the couple had a second daughter less than a year ago.
“He came safely on aviation,” said Khan. “He was lucky in the parking lot until this moment.”
The day after his brother killed, Khan said that he cleaned up Waziri’s blood in the parking lot when the alleged murderer, who lives in the same apartment complex, walked past and looked at him.
“I was like” oh my God “, he looked at me as if he didn’t like me. I was the one who spoke to the news. Cleaning up my brother’s blood.”
“We have some of the worst laws in the world in my country. But if something like that has happened, you know that the person will not run for you,” said Khan. “Even in Afghanistan that would not happen.”
The wife of Waziri, now a widow, is too scared to stay in Houston with the two young daughters of the couple, 9 months old Zoya and her 4-year-old sister, Bahar. The mother and girls are currently staying at Khan in Florida.
Waziri’s heroism was not limited to the battlefield. In the run -up to the chaotic withdrawal of troops in the summer of 2021, Waziri was essential to help Afghans who were allies of the American army to go out of the country by creating a safe house and protecting valuable information.
“It was like -t show, it was absolutely madness,” said a member of the army who refused to use his name for his safety. “But Mr Waziri worked to keep people safe.”
“The Taliban already spied on people. Roldly rolling through the streets with weapons. The noose noose was coming,” said Shireen Connor, a member of the Afghan evacuation team of Waziri. “And Mr Waziri held on to ensure that he still helped other people, thousand percent in the risk of his own life,”
“To know that such a person who died in a parking lot without justice is a crime in itself,” Connor added.
“They wanted better for themselves and their country. They appreciated what the American soldiers were doing there. They were brothers. That sense of democracy, that spirit – for Mr Waziri to get here and not get a suitable process, it is unconscious,” Connor said.
Former Green Beret and American army contractor Vince Leyva was so impressed by the work of Waziri that he brought him A trainer in Camp Dahlkie. Leyva would try to satisfy Waziri’s endless curiosity about the US. He even organized a party for Waziri when he was engaged.
Leyva wrote support letters for Waziri to come to the US and was very happy when he finally made it and his life lived with his wife and two daughters in Texas.
“You are fighting to save American life in a country like Afghanistan. You could have losing your leg, you could have losing your hand, your eye, your life. You do all that for America and you survive that you are being shot by bulls and bombs,” he said. “Then you will be killed in a parking lot. He earned another end to his story.”
Leyva wrote a letter – one of the dozens – looking for justice for Waziri That will be delivered to the mayor of Houston and the public prosecutor in Harris County.
Leyva’s letter ends with a plea for city officials.
“Please look into the tragic murder of this man, so that his family can get justice for his father, brother and husband who deserved to live in peace in a country that he supported so bravely during our forever war in Afghanistan.”
The mayor of Houston’s mayor, the Houston police and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately request comments.
