David Lavery, a former Canadian Armed Forces soldier, has been safely flown out of Taliban hands, as a Qatari official confirmed he landed in Doha.
A Canadian soldier takes part in an announcement regarding the arrival of new ambulance variants to the armoured combat support vehicle fleet at Garrison Petawawa in Petawawa, Ont., on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Lavery, known as Canadian Dave, helped more than 100 people flee Afghanistan during the fall of Kabul. He was picked up by the Taliban Nov. 11, shortly after he landed in the country. His whereabouts were unknown for several weeks.Lavery spent years travelling in and out of Afghanistan, where he operates a private security company called Raven Rae Consulting Services.
Lavery was one of the only Canadians on the ground at Hamid Karzai International Airport in August 2021 when the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan. Embassy staff had already fled the country on evacuation flights, and it would be another four days before Canadian Forces would arrive to help. Lavery was given a list of more than 1,000 people trying to seek refuge in Canada. His team’s mission was to help extract those with valid Canadian documentation amid the crush of people who flooded the security perimeter outside the airport.
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