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Afghanistan: Foreign Office chaotic during Kabul evacuation – whistleblower

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Afghanistan: Foreign Office chaotic during Kabul evacuation – whistleblower

Thousands of pleas for help went unread and the foreign secretary lacked urgency, an ex-official says.

By James Landale
Diplomatic correspondent / MOD VIA PA MEDIA


The UK Foreign Office’s handling of the Afghan evacuation after the Taliban seized Kabul was “dysfunctional” and “chaotic”, a whistleblower has said.

Raphael Marshall said the process of choosing who could get a flight out was “arbitrary” and thousands of emails with pleas for help went unread.

The then Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was slow to take decisions, he added.

A government spokesperson said staff had “worked tirelessly” on the “biggest mission of its kind in generations”.

And a source close to Mr Raab said verifying identity and securing safe passage had been the major practical challenge – not the speed of decision making.

The UK airlifted 15,000 people out of Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of the capital, Kabul. This included 5,000 British nationals, 8,000 Afghans and 2,000 children.

 

 

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