London-London-London The chaotic withdrawal of the American and British forces does not seem to be from Afghanistan 4 years ago, it ended at the limits of the western coalition loss of a new sphere of influence and restoration Taliban movement For power, and this confused withdrawal moment is still chasing successive British governments.
The political controversy in London has increased again regarding the British army abandoning thousands of Afghan collaborators who served with its forces and who face a mysterious fate after its withdrawal from Afghanistan, after the British government announced an endowment of a plan to resettle in the United Kingdom, which was designed by its predecessor for a tremendous leak of their data in 2022.
British newspapers revealed that the infiltrated Afghan asylum seekers regulations included a signal for the last known site of the providers of those requests, which would give the Taliban the ability – if it put its hand on the list – to track any individual included in it if they decided to target it.
One leak of 25,000 Afghan data opens the largest security scandal in Britain
Three years of obfuscation with tight judicial orders
When the hidden was exposed … the government had spent billions to transport the affected people for fear of the Taliban’s revenge.
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Neglect
The Financial Times indicated that the leaks regulations revealed the identity of British spies and the names of members of the Special Forces, among more than 100 British government employees, whose names were also mentioned in these lists, in which he described a very dangerous neglect to include sensitive names alongside Afghan asylum seekers.
But after the company was lifted from the case a few days ago, British Defense Secretary John Healy argued in front of Parliament that “the evidence for a threat to the lives of thousands of Afghans whose names appeared on the leaks regulations are small,” which encouraged the government to review the plan and lift the blackout.
The British government does not seem concerned about the fate of thousands of collaborators in Afghanistan, where the review concluded that the Taliban took place mainly on a broad database regarding the activity of these individuals, and its leaked database will not pose an additional danger to them.
Nick Harvey, the former British Defense Secretary, believes that stopping the secret immigration program aimed at protecting the Afghans threatened due to a serious mistake in securing their data, has left thousands of Afghans to confront an unknown fate in harsh conditions, which weakens the confidence of local partners in the conflict areas with the ability of the British army to protect them if they cooperate with its forces.
Harvey, who held the position of Minister of Defense between 2010 and 2012, adds to Al -Jazeera Net, that the justification that was submitted to keep the government to discourage the leak, under the pretext of protecting Afghan collaborators from the Taliban’s revenge, would have appeared acceptable if used as a temporary measure, but the continuation of this cover -up for more than two years greatly affected the effectiveness of the Emiratization program management.
A government insists Labor Party The current current is that it faces a heavy legacy of mismanagement left by 14 years of governor’s rule, and that the decision to stop the Emiratisation program will provide the British treasury 1.2 billion pounds, after the previous government plan was transferred 24 thousand Afghan at a cost of 7 billion pounds.
Disregard
Healy reported that the number of Afghans who was affected by violating their data was approved and that they were approved to be deported to Britain It reached 7900 people, while the number of those who have been transferred to now exceeded 900 collaborators and 3600 of their families.
For its part, IPhone Radley, a British journalist who covered the war in Afghanistan in 2021 and was detained by the Taliban before they released later, said that the British governments dealt very lightly with the Afghans who served in favor of the British forces, and who worked in extremely dangerous circumstances for years.
In an interview with Al -Jazeera Net, Radli considered that “the British government’s betrayal of these Afghans will constitute a deterrent to everyone who wants the British forces to recruit alongside it, which raises reservations among British military decision makers.”
Anger and protest is escalating among British parliamentarians due to successive governments since 2023, imposing secrecy on the data leakage scandal, and setting a secret plan for immigration at a cost of 6 billion pounds in isolation from any parliamentary control.
In a sharp warning tone, the head of the Intelligence and Security Committee called on Lord Pimmish – in a message to the government – to inform Parliament of all the intelligence assessments that prompted British officials to request the imposition of complete and the first of its kind in British history, stressing that there is no justification for blocking sensitive information about Parliament.
For his part, he described the prominent member of Conservative Party Edward Lee, British military intervention in Afghanistan with “original sin”, calling on British governments to take advantage of the intervention lessons in non -controlable countries such as Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan.
Migration
Political transparency between the ruling -right workers and the opposition Conservatives has not subsided for those who bear the responsibility for the mismanagement of this issue.
He called the Prime Minister Care Starmer To hold accountable ministers of the former governments of the Conservative Party involved in making decisions regarding dealing with the incident of the huge data leakage and trying to rectify it through a resettlement program.
While the former and leadership prime minister attacked the conservatives Liz Terrace The idea of deporting new immigrants to Britain, and considered the approval of a plan in millions of pounds to deport thousands of Afghans “a mistake in itself.”
The disclosure of the immigration of Afghan collaborators is more tension on a debate that does not stop in the ranks of the British party elites, regarding the management of the immigration file and the reduction of the number of migrants coming to the country.
Launch Nigel Faraj The leader of the anti -immigrant “extremist” reform party, a scathing attack on the secret plan of migration, accusing the British governments of incompetence, and claiming that the program brought Afghan from the criminal precedents to the country.
In a statement to Al -Jazeera Net, Catherine Glanaki, a professor of immigration policies at the London College of Economics and Political Science, believes that government policies in dealing with the complications of the file of asylum seekers are driven by motives for partisan competition with the populist right without taking into account the dire consequences of closing the door in the face of asylum seekers who choose to ride small boats in challenging the bureaucratic procedures.
Human rights organizations for refugee affairs, such as the British Refugee Council and the “Protection for Calais”, warned that stopping the Afghan immigration system will push more Afghans to behave the option of irregular immigration and try to reach the British coast on smugglers boats.
For its part, the British newspaper Telegraph reported that lawyers are preparing to challenge the government decision to stop the Emiratisation program in accordance with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms, which guarantee protection for persons at risk on the pretext of leaking their data, which may open the door to an increase in asylum requests or demand compensation for about 100 thousand Afghan.