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‘Betrayed’ Afghan special forces references ignored | BBC Newsnight
Some British Army members who say they tried to vouch for Afghan special forces, were never contacted by the Ministry of Defence, an investigation by BBC Newsnight has found.
Multiple sources have told the BBC that some people who offered to give Afghan soldiers references never heard back, and those troops are now in danger of being sent back to the Taliban.
Many of the soldiers were subsequently denied help by a scheme designed to settle those in danger in the UK.
About 200 members of Afghan special forces, trained and funded by the UK, currently living in Pakistan face imminent deportation to Afghanistan.
The men were told they did not fall under the UK’s Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP), which was designed to help those who served alongside the UK military.
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The US said it has hit “dozens” of Iranian military targets in overnight attacks, in response to Iran hitting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The military said it struck “air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats”, using aircraft, ships, and drones – including “one-way attack sea drones for the first time”.
“The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade,” the US military said. “Iran does not control it”.
In response, Iran said it targeted US bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait and also radar systems in Oman.
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President Donald Trump has said the US is reinstating a naval blockade of Iranian ports and will impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz following days of escalating strikes between the two countries.
He said this would stop “Iran’s ships or customers” from entering or leaving the key oil shipping route, but “all other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait”.
Iran’s foreign minister later said whoever provides safe passage “should be compensated for this service”, but Iran would remain the strait’s “GUARDIAN” – using Trump’s word.
Tehran and Washington clashed over the strait’s control after exchanging strikes in the region overnight and on Monday.
The US said it carried out strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting air defence systems, coastal radars, and missile and drone sites. Iran said it responded by striking US military bases in Kuwait, Jordan and Bahrain, and radars in Oman.
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Wildfires of ‘exceptional scale’ have taken force in Paris, as neighbouring Spain still tackles flames across the country following its own devastating fires.
Now the UK is also experiencing wildfires in England and Wales, as its third heatwave of the year is set to intensify again this week.
Here’s what we know so far about the extent of wildfires in Europe and the UK, and how heatwaves are impacting them.
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Explosions have been heard near two Iranian port cities, Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, state media has reported.
It comes after another night of strikes between the US and Iran, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying it hit two UAE tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and targeted US facilities in Jordan and Bahrain.
The UAE called the attack “brazen”, adding that an Indian crew member was killed and eight others were injured.
Meanwhile, the US military says it completed strikes on targets aimed at degrading “Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping” – Iranian state media reports three people were killed.
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The US military said it was carrying out a new wave of strikes on targets in Iran. It said the aim of the attacks was to degrade Iran’s ability to attack shipping in the strait of Hormuz. It came ass the US Navy resumed its blockade of Iran’s ports.
Iran said that control of the strait of Hormuz was required for its national security and it will exercise sovereignty over the key shipping lane, whatever the cost.
President Trump announced that he was scrapping a plan he had announced a day earlier, for placing a 20% toll or tariff on all cargos passing through the strait of Hormuz.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.
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@samshepperrd
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Especially outrageous in view of the masses (some undoubtedly Taliban or dumps) crossing illegally into Europe and North America.
@renatastec5212
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Despicable, shameful, disgusting betrayal. And to think illegal immigrants are here, being spoiled rotten, while these brave men are left behind… My heart aches…
@RollcageHiggins
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Just turn up and get a free house like the rest of the raw sewage that come
@ranasulaiman9404
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
they are just useless for everyone😐😐😐
@user-ni7fc6bt9m
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Опять в Афганистан припёрлись?!
Делать вам больше что-ли нечиго кроме как в чужие в частности Азиатские особенно Мусульманские Страны лезть?! То к Арабам лезите то к Тюркам Особенно к Туркам и остольным Тюркским Странам и Народам Тоже то на Кавказ лезите и базаритесь а теперь к персам припёрлись!!
Сидите уже у себя в своей вонючей чумной грязной европе-гейропе!!!!! Хватит к Нам и Нашим лезть!!!!!
Займитесь уже своими проблемами их у вас полно!!
Но почему-то вы вместо того чтобы заняться собой и своей жизнью своими проблемами постоянно суетесь и лезите к чужим Людям к чужим Народам в чужие Страны!! Прётесь куда-то за три девять Земель и даже не ленитесь!!
Какие же вы всё таки наглые ужасные бессовестные!!
Тогда в те времена лезли ко всем правили колониально
И сейчас тоже не оставили эту колониальную политику!!
Верно же говорят горбатого могила исправит!!
В своих глазах бревна не видите
Но зато в чужих глазах соломинки замечаете!!!!!
@-Suqron_HAMAS
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Unarmed civilians waving white flags are HAMAS???, while HAMAS dressed in black and armed are ghosts!!!.🤔
Ridiculous silliness
Free Palestine 🇮🇩🇵🇸
@nancycole-auguste6614
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Without trustworthiness the stability of all affairs will corrode and fail.
@Simply_Andy
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
If you can't handle the consequences don't go to war for anyone else's ideology or political ambition and then expect them to bail you out when it all goes tit's up. Which it always does.
@kokliangchew3609
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
My maternal grandfather who was a Chinese Malayan, was one of the few non-whites who worked with the British Colonial Service in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya prior to the Second World War. As a Chinese, and as a result of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, it was well expected that he and other Chinese Malayans who worked with the British would be targetted by the Japanese. However, when the Japanese did invade and conquer Malaya, there were no plans to evacuate or even provide evacuation assistance to my grandfather and others like him who had served the British faithfully. Only white British were evacuated and non-white British were all left to fend for themselves. Some survived in hiding, like my grandfather, others were caught, tortured and killed by the Japanese. History repeats itself with the fall of Kabul, where Afghan dogs were given priority by the British government for evacuation over Afghan humans! The Afghans who worked and supported the British in Afghanistan made the same mistake as the Malayans did during the Second World War. They were dumb enough to trust the British!
@ghostface4245
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Continue to boycott companies that support I5rael
@bobdidit55
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
The government is happy to rehome the Afghan women’s football team, because it woke and looks good.
But can’t help the Afghans that put their lives on the line to fight with our SF.
Makes me sick.
I’m tired of the immoral Tory government.
@harold-dr1yd
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
At least they aren't shaming my grandparents with racial politics, vowing to make more attempts on the dinghies and insidiously plotting the downfall of the West from within – nobody ever calls it the West. Let them in
@Eureka7n
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
They are the betrayers. as simple as that
@sn1190
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
NO FREE SPEECH WITH BBC !!!
@sn1190
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
https://www.youtube.com/live/bNyUyrR0PHo?si=h6VAb8g018fmyQMs
@hmmmmm2634
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
No sympathy for the Afghan troops….they sided with corrupt UK and US and now , surprise surprise, they are being treated like dirt. Why don’t they ask the UK and US to help save all the women and girls being killed in Gaza?
@SH4TL32
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
They did this in Canada and the USA too. It's almost like this was orchsetrated
@adrianlouw2499
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
But the Russians are the bad guys not us…
@Ka-hs4yc
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
My heart aches for these loyal and brave people, it’s crying shame how the US, the UK, and Canadian governments just abandoned them for the worst of fates. What a betrayal, hypocrisy, and cruelty!
@hunniieable
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Over and over again the western leaders show their lies and hypocrisy. I don’t want to hear from the west about human rights anymore. The US and Britain are the biggest human rights violators and they continue to preach to others. Shameful!
@curiositycloset2359
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Hey guess what. Just catch a dingy. Get free housing etc.
@Xwarrior-dl4kz
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
They betrayed with their country!!! They are betrayer.
@SemperFidelisCasablancas
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
I DIDN'T IGNORE THEM. THE REST OF YOU ALL DID THOUGH.
@PK-999
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
The British Establishment does what it always does. Fucks over anyone it doesn't see as worthy. If you are living in in the United Kingdom and aren't wealthy, you could be next……
@gallagherhelen
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
The west, specifically the NATO nations collectively, have betrayed and abandoned nearly every set of "allies" they ever funded and trained and convinced to fight against their own people, either as rebels or as legitimate state forces.
@dubnation8924
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
they are a bunch of cowards if they were true afghans they would return to Afghanistan and join the Emirate in fighting the enemies of Afghanistan and the Muslim world. the Britis and Nato have always been the enemy 🥺
@widervision710
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
It's amazing that BJ & his mistress helped Pen Farthing & his Afghan staff, plus stray dogs get out of Afghanistan, but never bothered to help these loyal front line Afghans……
@valorzinski7423
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Just like the Brits did to th Gurkhas
If you ain't White, you gonna be thrown under the bus
@enterthejouz6728
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Alhamdulillah
@ericp1139
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
I hope other nations take warning before they become a proxy of the West. Looking at you, TW.
@blasterthin1534
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Y did they refuse to fight the taliban they practically handed the country to terrorists on a silver platter
@earthboy5719
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
The west betrayed them as they will do with Ukraine. They care just about itself
@ArghastOfTheAlliance
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
"Hard to verify", while they allow hundreds of thousands of illegal invaders to cross the Channel with no verification attempted whatsoever. Disgusting.
@Subtleknife12367
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
They arent British Citizens we are under no obligation to take them. When they signed up British citizenship was not part of the deal. This country isn't a charity.
@busybee9274
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
They betrayed their country for an invading army and now that invading army betrayed them. It’s third time BBC posted this same report crying for these traitors trying to draw the attention of British government.
@auro1986
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
you ignored that they all get trained together with taliban but bbc showed you investment opportunities in afghanistan where you can avail drugs and sell cheap chinese stuff
@ronaldwheeler6060
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Our fraudulent president Biden turned his back on innocent Afghanistans and Americans that he left behind.
@fradiavolo9293
December 20, 2023 at 9:00 pm
Never trust the "west"😂🤦🏿♂️