Afghans who labored alongside British spies left in Afghanistan – BBC Newsnight
Newsnight can reveal a number of Afghans who risked their lives working alongside British intelligence have been left in Afghanistan – some having pleaded months in the past for evacuation. Please subscribe HERE
While UK and US forces have managed to evacuate hundreds of Afghans since Kabul fell, these nonetheless in Afghanistan have been left to the mercy of the Taliban.
Newsnight has realized that many Afghans concerned in extremely delicate counter-terrorism operations in opposition to the Taliban are in hiding within the nation, regardless of, in some circumstances, pleading to get out way back to in Might.
On the subject of Afghans who risked their lives working for the British navy effort, typically in intelligence, is there an ethical accountability to avoid wasting them?
Newsnight’s Diplomatic Editor Mark City stories.
Kirsty Wark is joined by Dan Jarvis, Labour Mayor of South Yorkshire and former military officer who served twice in Afghanistan.
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