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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Bancroft

Britain’s scandalous treatment of Afghan special forces who fought alongside UK laid bare in damning report

There were “serious failings” in how the Ministry of Defence handled applications from Afghan special forces soldiers to come to Britain, MPs have concluded – two years and a half years after The Independent exposed how the former commandos had been abandoned.

In a report published by the defence select committee into a Ministry of Defence (Mod) data breach, MPs reviewed how the department handled sanctuary applications from former special forces units, known as the Triples.

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