'In one day, you lose everything': Afghan interpreter on his family's journey to the US, what lies ahead

An Afghan interpreter talks about his escape from the Taliban and journey to the U.S.

"Abdul" was ready to die for his service with the U.S. military.

An interpreter who worked for years with U.S. Marines in some of Afghanistan's most dangerous provinces, he had pleaded for a U.S. visa last June as the Taliban were sweeping across the country, telling ABC News's Martha Raddatz, "I know that I will be killed by the Taliban."

"If they take over the Kabul," he said, "then they will behead us."

By August, with the U.S.-backed government collapsed and the Taliban running the capital's streets, he knew his and his family's lives were in imminent danger.