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The brother of an Afghan translator who worked for American forces during the war is being sentenced to death for helping provide security to his brother in yet another sign that the Taliban’s new ‘moderate’ façade has already crumbled.

News of the letter emerges as Vice President Kamala Harris announced that now was not the time to analyze the withdrawal of the Biden administration from the war-torn country, but instead to focus on evacuation.

CNN confirmed the translator, who has not been named, worked with the US Army, and that his brother, also unnamed, had been sentenced to death.

A week after the Fall of Kabul, the flailing hegemon continues to embarrass itself:

America’s official deadline for total withdrawal from Afghanistan is August 31st, so half the remaining time has already elapsed, and in that first week of a final fortnight, according to the Department of Defense, it evacuated just 2,500 Americans – or about 350 per day. That seems an under-performance – or, as The New York Post’s front-page headline distills it, “DUMKIRK”.

The Taliban say they will not extend the deadline for Western forces to leave Afghanistan.

Spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the BBC’s Yalda Hakim that 31 August was a red line and that any extension would be a “clear violation” of the Doha agreement between the United States and the Taliban.

It was the rescue mission that didn’t happen.

A large group of Afghan interpreters and their families were gathered together by Canadian government officials in a group and waited all day and night for the heroes to come and take them into the safe confines of the Kabul airport.

These are the Afghan interpreters, LECs and families who gathered for the heroic Canadian rescue next to Kabul Airport that never came pic.twitter.com/gFLySFYHED

— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) August 23, 2021