To be clear, this isn't what I said, it's by someone on the ground at Kabul Airport.
I've passed their details to a bigger outlet to help force @DefenceHQ to get someone to get them past the 2nd checkpoint at the South Gate.
They are British Nationals. Told earlier today by @DefenceHQ to come to the South Gate at Kabul Airport for final the UK flight out.
They're at the 2nd Taliban checkpoint at South Entrance with their 4 kids, but there's no UK personnel to clear them through.
The family, who I have spoken too, have had to leave the checkpoint as the Taliban took their UK passports and sent them away.
Their house is now being turned over by the Taliban.
All it required was one UK official to come and vouch for them. ONE.
His phone is no longer on. I can tell you that General Nick Carter has a specific interest in this case as their PoC and I hold him personally responsible if anything has happened.
They didn't get such late clearance for no reason did they @DefenceHQPress?
Astoundingly inept
Friend at MNCC has added them to list of those permitted entry to Airport. Some kind folk from the 🇺🇸 U.S. reached out & are off for a drive later to collect them if poss.
The status of the husband is uncertain, but family can be saved.
Thanks everyone who's worked on this.
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2/ NEW - The Leader of the coup d'etat in Guinea, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya was a French Legionarie who reached the the rank of corporal before he returned to Guinea to lead a new Special Forces Unit created by the now deposed Alpha Condé.
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3/ In 2018, Aladji Cellou Camara, the director of information and public relations of the Guinean Army said:
“Commander Mamady Doumbouya brilliantly completed the operational protection specialist training at the International Security Academy (Israel),"
1/🇬🇧 The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation #JCVO has decided to invite another 200,000 12 to 15-year-olds with underlying health problems for Covid vaccines.
However, has stopped short of extending it to all teenagers.
2/ Instead, health ministers from all 4 devolved Parliaments in the UK will ask their Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) to decide. They will consider the impact on education which the JCVI did not.
3/ This means that approximately 350,000 12 to 15-year-olds with underlying health conditions will now be eligible for vaccination.
The JCVI experts did say the benefits to children do "marginally outweigh the risks" but that stopped short of recommending universal vaccination.4
THREAD 1/ 🏴 The Scottish Social Services Council have released their 2020 report on the social work, social care & early years workforce.
The size of the workforce has increased to 209,690, a rise of 1.6% since 2019. This is the highest level recorded since these reports began.
2/ The Scottish social service workforce makes up approximately 8.0% of all Scottish employment.
The stability index of the workforce is 80.8%. This means over four fifths of the workforce remained in the same post since last year.
3/ The largest employer type differs between 🏴 local authority areas, with services in Orkney, Shetland and Na h-Eileanan Siar (the three island authorities) provided mainly by the public sector.
However, in most areas the private sector is the largest employer
1 reason the Met could face action, is as a result of a Supreme Court ruling that said the blocking a public highway is a legitimate form of protest.
An officer in the video arrested 1 protester for Obstruction of a Highway, which a judge advised against independent.co.uk/climate-change…
The Met and CPS have been repeatedly warned by judges that continuing to arrest XR protesters using Obstruction of a Highway, *may result in unlawful arrests.
That would result in legal bills & a squeeze on their already tight budget.
My Afghan friend, wife and 4 kids are trapped in Kabul, Afghanistan. He fled Herat after being targeted. He worked for NATO at Camp Arena. His father was an ANP Colonel murdered by Taliban, his brother, murdered.
The only option left is to pay $20k to get them out. FUCK
I might add I'm not advocating paying. I'm just pointing out it's the option I'm left with, otherwise they remain stranded on waste ground near Kabul Airport.
What do I do? 4 Young kids. I can't get 20k in no time.
UPDATE- Someone on here from the US State Department reached out and tool my friends details and has passed them up the chain.
As he's already been vetted this year by NATO, this helped.
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