The UK says thousands of Afghans have been brought to Britain under a secret resettlement program

LONDON AP Thousands of Afghans who worked with British forces have been secretly resettled in the U K after a leak of facts on their identities raised fears that they could be targeted by the Taliban The British establishment disclosed the existence of the resettlement project on Tuesday A dataset containing the personal information of nearly Afghans who had applied to come to Britain after the Taliban takeover of their country was disclosed in error in and extracts were later published online That prompted the then-Conservative establishment to set up a secret project to resettle the Afghans The authorities obtained a strict court order known as a superinjunction that barred anyone from revealing its existence The injunction was lifted on Tuesday and Britain s current Labour Party regime mentioned it was making the effort general It revealed an independent review had revealed little evidence that the leaked evidence would expose Afghans to greater exposure of retribution from the Taliban Source