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Kent man says US left his brother, mother behind in Afghanistan

A Kent man said his brother and nine members of his family, desperate to get out of Afghanistan, are still there.

Both he and his brother worked for the U.S. military during the 20-year war.

He is in touch with senators from Washington state, Florida, and Colorado.  He said he is contacting anyone he can think of to help get his brother and family out.

He believes the consequences will be dire if his family members don’t get out of Afghanistan soon.

“They’re coming after you,” said Mohammad Yoor.

He said he believes his brother will be killed.

“A hundred percent,” he said.  “Yep, there is no way he will be alive.”

That is the grim assessment from Yoor about the fate of his older brother now that the U.S. military has departed without him and his family, including their ailing 65-year-old mother.

“She’s diabetic,” he said.  “It’s devastating. I cannot sleep.”

Yoor is pictured here with his brother and two of his nine children.  He asked us to not show their faces for their safety.

He said in the 15 days since the Taliban took over Kabul, his brother, like he, a former adviser to the U.S. Army, has tried to get out — at one point, spending hours amid the chaos at the airport.

“But there was no way to get out,” said Yoor, “because it was too many people. And there was no way to get to the American people to see the documents.”

Luckily, his brother and his family left the airport an hour before a suicide bomber’s deadly attack.  But a young cousin who was still there was killed.

Now Yoor is talking to any federal official who can provide some hope of safe passage for his brother’s family.  He said every day his brother remains in their homeland means he is in peril.

“Because his work with the U.S. military put his life in danger,” said Yoor.  “I’ve been talking to the senator(s) and to the State Department.  And I’m not stopping until they get out.”

He said thousands of people, many of them American citizens, are still desperate to leave.

He said the U.S. must fulfill its promise not to leave anyone behind.