RICHARD ELDRED

Former Taliban fighters are living in the UK after being secretly airlifted from Afghanistan on British mercy flights, reports the Mail. Here’s an excerpt:

This newspaper revealed earlier this month a British military official catastrophically wrongly shared a database of 100,000 Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in the UK. …

So far, 18,500 of the Afghans it imperilled have been flown to Britain or are on their way in taxpayer-funded jets, under a covert airlift, codenamed Operation Rubific.

A total of 23,900 are earmarked for arrival. They are living in MOD homes or hotels until permanent homes are found.

But now, former Taliban fighters themselves have reportedly been brought to this country under the airlift scheme, the Telegraph reports.

Sex offenders, corrupt officials and individuals put in prison under Afghanistan’s US-led coalition are also among those accepted for resettlement in the UK.

It is because they were on the leaked list of names of Afghans who had applied to come to the UK.

Several individuals on list had also previously had their applications rejected for violent or sexual assaults.

A 23-month High Court super-injunction, only lifted this month, previously prevented the media reporting on the leak and the airlift operation, keeping the public in the dark. …

Senior sources have now said people with Taliban connections managed to infiltrate the evacuation scheme and get fighters from the militant group to the UK.

They did so in some cases by naming the Islamic fundamentalists as relatives or dependents who would need to accompany them to this country.

One Afghan official revealed: “We had civilians in our office who had clear ties with the Taliban.”

Another explained it was “corrupt” Afghan officials who were getting people with Taliban connections to Britain, on the scheme intended for actual UK allies.

It was facilitated by UK officials tending to rely on these corrupt Afghan representatives for advice, they added: “It’s depressing.”

Another said: “They are not good for Britain. They were fighting against British forces and killed lots of Brits but now are being fed by Brits in London.

“They have British blood on their hands.”

The Ministry of Defence has previously revealed some Afghans who entered the UK on the scheme brought more than 20 relatives with them.

Four such Taliban sympathisers who are said to have entered the UK under the airlift scheme have reportedly been named so far.

Worth reading in full.

Via The Daily Sceptic

Politics: policing the people

RICHARD NORTH

It would seem that the staggering incompetence of the MoD over the Afghan scandal knows no limits as the Telegraph reveals that former Taliban fighters are living in the UK after being airlifted from Afghanistan on British mercy flights.

These jihadists are said to be amongst the thousands of Afghans secretly flown into Britain because their names had been included on the list of applicants for evacuation, mistakenly released by a Royal Marine officer. It now appears that sex offenders, corrupt officials and people imprisoned under the US-led coalition are also among those who have been accepted for resettlement in the UK in what is described as an “apparent” failure of vetting procedures.

Informed by multiple senior sources in Afghanistan, the Telegraph is telling us that evacuation process was infiltrated by individuals with Taliban connections who exploited the system and got fighters to the UK, not least by naming Taliban fighters as family members and dependents of those already resident in the UK.

An anonymous Afghan official is cited, who tells the paper: “We had civilians in our office who had clear ties with the Taliban. They were taken to Britain and then introduced fighters as family members and brought them to Britain … some people on the evacuation list named people with clear ties to the Taliban and introduced Taliban people as cousins, and they are in Britain”.

We are told of a pattern where corrupt Afghan officials, rather than genuine British allies, were facilitating the evacuation of Taliban-connected individuals. Another anonymous Afghan official has it that: “We had a lot of corrupt officials” who “are now taking Taliban fighters to Britain rather than those who really worked for the UK. It’s depressing”.

That same official claims that UK personnel often seemed to rely on these corrupt individuals for consultation and recommendations, leading to the inclusion of Taliban-connected people on evacuation lists.

In a previous piece, the Telegraph had reported the views of Robert Clark, a former soldier and reservist who had worked on the relocation scheme. He claims to have been informed by MoD personnel that full vetting of applicants secretly brought to the UK had not been completed.

Clark warns there would be significant national security implications for intelligence services and police if proper background checks had not been conducted to determine whether individuals had been radicalised or maintained terrorist connections.

On the back of that, a former senior Afghan official tells the Telegraph: “They are not good for Britain. They were fighting against British forces and killed lots of Brits but now are being fed by Brits in London. They have British blood on their hands”.

And nor is the presence of these people in any way an asset to the nation. By coincidence (one assumes), the Spectator reports that, as part of the Afghan resettlement programme, around 39,000 refugees have been brought here since the fall of Kabul.

Some 2,300 Afghans, many of them young men, are housed not in civilian accommodation, but on active MoD property, including housing estates reserved outside military bases. This means they live alongside serving military personnel and their spouses and children. In some garrison towns, significant blocks of military housing have been effectively turned over to this purpose.

Soldiers and local government officials say that it is not always a harmonious arrangement. One soldier tells of groups of Afghan men standing outside family homes at all hours. Unregistered vehicles, he claims, appear in the middle of the night, revving their engines. Women on the bases, the soldier adds, have altered their dog-walking routes to avoid these groups, as some of the men react aggressively to dogs, even in some cases kicking them.

On Facebook groups for military personnel in the areas surrounding these barracks, similar complaints are made. One post from Alanbrooke barracks in North Yorkshire recently claimed Afghan teenagers were ganging up to fight local teenagers.

Another post on a page about Durrington barracks in Wiltshire alleges an Afghan teenager stole flowers from a memorial on a bench outside a local Tesco. These are two isolated incidences, of course, but they illustrate unease among communities about the handling of Afghan resettlement.

Several soldiers assert that, when concerns are raised and sent up the chain of command, they go unanswered. The assumption among personnel, whether or not it is correct, is that this intransigence is political, because senior members of the military establishment are unwilling to confront integration issues.

The article adds much more but, when all is said and done, it is just another example of the stresses imposed by what appears to be the determination of successive government to flood this country with third-world immigrants, many of whom have nothing in common with the settled population and, in many respects, are hostile to it.

And, as public concern intensifies, even the legacy media is at last beginning to notice. The Telegraph has a piece declaring: “Migrant hotel protests spread nationwide”, while the Mail reports of a “protest standoff”, with protests at asylum hotels spread to Bournemouth, Norwich and Portsmouth.

It seems now that the Home Office is responding to public concerns, but in worryingly sinister way. According to the Telegraph – which is running a real risk of becoming a serious newspaper again – it is setting up an elite team of police officers is to monitor social media for anti-migrant sentiment.

The division, called the National Internet Intelligence Investigations team, will aim to “maximise social media intelligence” gathering after police forces were criticised over their response to last year’s riots. It will work out of the National Police Coordination Centre (NPoCC) in Westminster.

The NPoCC, as an existing unit, has form. It provides the central planning for forces across the country when dealing with “nationally significant protests” and civil disorder. But it also led Operation Talla, the nationwide police response to the Covid pandemic, which included the enforcement of lockdown rules, so it is well versed in large-scale public control programmes.

By way of comment, the paper cites Rebecca Vincent, the interim director of Big Brother Watch. She raises concerns that the new investigations team could stray into policing lawful opinions online, saying that: “The Home Office’s plan to create a new police unit to monitor social media is disturbing, and eerily reminiscent of the Covid-era counter-disinformation units, which have been the subject of widespread public outcry”.

Jim Chimirie, a prolific commentator on Twitter is more direct. “The British state has lost the will to defend its borders but found boundless energy to police its own people”, he writes.

“Instead of confronting the crisis at the Channel”, he continues, “the Home Office is assembling a new ‘elite’ unit – not to stop illegal migration, but to monitor what ordinary Britons say about it online. It is far simpler to clamp down on dissent than to deal with the chaos of an open border”.

Meanwhile, in an extraordinarily vacuous piece in the Sunday Times, home secretary Yvette Cooper claims: “We’re fixing asylum the British way”.

The British way, she asserts, “is to roll our sleeves up and deal with the problem. To get the backlog cleared, get failed asylum seekers removed, and get each hotel closed”. And thus, in an outstanding example of self-delusion, she tells us: Step by step, that’s what we’ll continue to do to restore control to the system and rebuild confidence in our communities”.

It is almost impossible to do justice to this statement. With the backlog increasing as “asylum seekers” reach record levels, the only way the Home Office has found to deal with the problem is basically to rubber-stamp the bulk of applications, replicating the Afghan chaos by allowing unvetted and potentially dangerous young men to remain in this country when they have no right to be here.

As to getting the hotels closed, we already know that this simply means dispersing the migrants in HMOs and other accommodation, possibly creating even bigger problems than we have now. The chances of rebuilding confidence in our communities, as Cooper would have it, is as close to nil as makes no difference.

The superficial, almost trivial approach taken by Cooper, seems at odds with Blair’s carefully crafted programme of deceit, stemming from David Blunkett in this report. This rather suggests that she is no longer even trying to bring public opinion on-side, and will instead rely on police intimidation, backed by compliant courts, to suppress dissent.

For a long time now, it has been evident that the Starmer Regime has declared war on the indigenous people of Britain, aided and abetted by the progressive Left. Now, with each passing day, professor Betz’s predictions seem to come closer to fruition.

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