EXCLUSIVE: American Snuck into Afghanistan to Save His Sisters (Part 1)

Asks State Department for a diplomatic solution to overland escape

THIS IS PART ONE OF AN EXCLUSIVE THREE-PART SERIES. THE LINK TO PART TWO IS AT THE END.

Ali said he was shaking when he saw the Taliban at the border checkpoint of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.

Just two days earlier, he was with his wife in their Connecticut home. Now he was on a desperate mission to try to get his sisters out of Afghanistan before the U.S…