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British MPs debate the fall of Kabul: ‘This is a shame on all of us’

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Wednesday, 18 August, 2021
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The Guardian

Debate in Commons hears from former and current party leaders, and MPs who served in Afghanistan.

Nusrat Ghani, Tory MP

“This has been catastrophic, cack-handed, cruel and humiliating. It is a watershed in the failure of the west … I need to understand how our intelligence has failed, how the imagination of those providing the intelligence has failed, and if we’re relying on this intelligence going forward, how can we be sure that they know to do the right thing?”

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