Taliban issue death sentence for brother of Afghan translator who helped US troops, according to letters obtained by CNN

MSN Politics ^ | 8/23/21 | Brianna Keilar and Veronica Stracqualursi

[Bearshouse]

The Taliban have sentenced the brother of an Afghan translator to death, according to letters obtained by CNN, accusing him of helping the US and providing security to his brother, who served as an interpreter to American troops.

[Bearshouse]

"You have been accused of helping the Americans," the Taliban wrote in the first of three letters to the Afghan man, adding, "You are also accused of providing security to your brother, who has been an interpreter." The first letter from the Taliban, which is hand written, orders the man to appear for a hearing. The second handwritten letter is a notice of his failure to appear for the hearing. In the third letter, which is typed, the Taliban notify the man that because he rejected previous warnings to stop "your servitude to the invading crusaders" and ignored a subpoena to appear for a hearing, he was "guilty in absentia" and will be sentenced to death.

[House Atreides]

I’m sorry but I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot of this stuff - much of it phony. Is this instant one phony? Who knows.

[Red Badger]

A ‘kinder, gentler’ kind of Taliban. At least they wrote letters..............

[Drew68]

Understanding that there's an effort to sway American opinion into permitting millions of Afghans to immigrate here, I take all of this stuff with a great deal of skepticism.

I've been reading about Taliban atrocities on MSM news sites that are notable in their total absence of video evidence, relying only on hearsay.

[caww]

Even if some of these stories are fictitious we do know that the Taliban hasn’t changed their agenda nor their cruel and violent practices so these cruelties, they are well known for, will surely be and continue under Shariah Law.

[mware]

Jennifer Griffin received call from someone she worked with. He was sent a video of the execution of his Lt. in Afgsn army. Griffin said it was too horrific to be shown on television.

[AndyJackson]

JDAMs on every Taliban concentraion, HQs or political gathering. There is no excuse for this inhumanity. I am not advocating that we ever again attempt to govern Afghanistan - we never should have gotten in the idiotic neo-con nation-building exercise. But making life hell for the inhumane Taliban is a very different matter and easily executed.

[Drew68]

I’m sorry but I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot of this stuff - much of it phony. Is this instant one phony? Who knows.

I've noticed were seeing the definition of Afghans that need to be brought to America as refugees change from "Afghans who are at risk because they provided assistance to the U.S. military" to "Afghans who are at risk."

Just yesterday an article highlighted the need for translators to provide assistance to a planeload of Afghans who arrived in Virginia. I thought, "Wait, aren't these guys all supposed to be translators themselves?"

[House Atreides]

“ Understanding that there’s an effort to sway American opinion into permitting millions of Afghans to immigrate here, I take all of this stuff with a great deal of skepticism.

I’ve been reading about Taliban atrocities on MSM news sites that are notable in their total absence of video evidence, relying only on hearsay.”
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“There are eight million stories in the Naked City; this has been one of them.“

[Leaning Right]

> Just yesterday an article highlighted the need for translators to provide assistance to a planeload of Afghans who arrived in Virginia. I thought, “Wait, aren’t these guys all supposed to be translators themselves?” <

Good catch. And that’s something a bulldog media would investigate. But of course we no longer have a bulldog media.

[Obadiah]

Atta boy, Joe! Well done, Milley!

[rdcbn1]

The Taliban is going to do a lot of crimes against humanity.

The Taliban were the guys who trained al Qaeda and and set up the world wide network of Jihadi sleeper cells that recruited and trained much of the foreign ISIS Jihadi.

Atrocity, intimidation and torture are their signature of Jihadi domination to force submission. They treated captured Yidzi sex slaves so badly that many of these women freely choose to be burned alive rather than submit to the ISIS rapists

Don't think things are going to be different this time around. The bad stuff happens when the foreign Jihadi return to Afghanistan

[Jeff Chandler]

Biden said they were keeping their word, and son-of-a-gun, they are.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I wish the American press would stop Anglicizing the name of the terrorist organization. The proper spelling is Tlaiban as in Rashida Tlaib not Taliban.

[StAnDeliver]

IndiaTV has a long reel of dead bodies from the fall of Kabul. Scroll down to the embedded Youtube video, watch the third panel on the right -- despite IndiaTV blurring the video, one can count at least 8 bodies (at least one partially disrobed) along and behind a 'yellow zone' of a government-ish building in Kabul.

[bgill]

The brother’s neighbor’s third cousin once removed wives’ burka maker may be next on the list.

[Irish Eyes]

Did you watch Lara Logan last night ?

[I want the USA back]

Just beginning.

[ProudVet97]

“A ‘kinder, gentler’ kind of Taliban. At least they wrote letters..............”

In the words of GWB - “The Religion of Peace!”

[zeugma]

I’m a little bit unclear on exactly why it is, that we are responsible for these people. They are Afghans. Any intelligence or assistance they might have given us was not done because they love the US, but in support of their own people. We should have provided them arms and ammo so they can operate as guerrillas or to generally strike at the taliban. Seems to me, they have a job to do in their own country, rather than hiding in ours.