Afghanistan: Dominic Raab denies claims his decisions 'cost lives'

DOMINIC Raab took hours to make life or death decisions as he didn’t understand the crisis in Afghanistan, a whistle-blower has claimed. The former foreign secretary was on holiday in Crete as the Taliban advanced on Kabul in August. A Foreign Office insider said “it took several hours” for Raab to engage on key decisions over who could be evacuated in the deadly Kabul airlift. Instead of ruling yes or no, Raab demanded staff put all the cases for his attention into a "well presented table,” Raphael Marshall told MPs. “For the Foreign Secretary to make this request suggests he did not fully understand the situation,” Marshall, an Afghanistan desk officer, added. He claimed up to 140,000 Afghans’ pleas for help were ignored. “It is clear that some of those left behind have since been murdered by the Taliban,” he added. At one point during Op Pitting, the deadly evacuation of more than 15,000 people by British Paras and the RAF, Marshall was the only person left monitoring the Afghan Special Cases inbox. Read more: Dominic Raab took hours to make life or death decisions as he didn’t understand Afghan crisis, whistleblower tells MPs https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16960488/afghanistan-airlift-dominic-raab/ The Sun newspaper brings you the latest breaking news videos and explainers from the UK and around the world Become a Sun Subscriber and hit the bell to be the first to know Read The Sun: http://www.thesun.co.uk Like The Sun on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesun/ Follow The Sun on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSun Subscribe to The Sun on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/The_Sun/1633225139 #Afghanistan #Raab #DominicRaab