Claims That Internal Document Warned of Early Afghanistan Collapse ‘Wrong’: UK Foreign Office

Claims That Internal Document Warned of Early Afghanistan Collapse ‘Wrong’: UK Foreign Office
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab speaks to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of MPs in Parliament on Sept. 1, 2021. Screenshot/Parliament TV
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
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The British Foreign Office has denied that an internal document, which painted a bleak picture of the situation in Afghanistan just weeks before the fall of Kabul, was at odds with its official position or intelligence-based assessments.

Reports which suggest that the document warned of a faster-than-anticipated fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban are “wrong and misleading,” according to the Foreign Office.

Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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