The covert airlift – codenamed Operation Rubific - was launched after the UK military catastrophically lost a database of Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in the UK in a scheme for those who had worked with British forces to flee the murderous Taliban.
The data blunder also exposed British officials whose details were on the database. And the Mail can exclusively reveal that several Afghans on list had previously been rejected for violent or sexual assaults.
Instead of coming clean about all this, the Ministry of Defence mounted a cover-up and successfully hushed up the Daily Mail's exclusive data-breach story when we discovered it in August 2023.
Ever since then, cloaked by an unprecedented news blackout, ministers have been clandestinely running one of the biggest peacetime evacuation missions in modern British history to rescue people the UK had imperilled: smuggling thousands out of Afghanistan and flying them to Britain at vast cost, with taxpayers being neither asked nor informed.
So far 18,500 Afghans whose data was lost have been flown to Britain or are on their way in taxpayer-funded jets. A total of 23,900 are earmarked for arrival. They are living in MOD homes or hotels until permanent homes are found. Tens of thousands of others will be left behind in Afghanistan and will have to fend for themselves against vengeful Taliban warlords.
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