Dominic Raab: #UK #intelligence said #Kabul ‘unlikely’ to fall this year

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/01/dominic-raab-uk-intelligence-said-kabul-unlikely-to-fall-this-year

He told MPs on the Commons foreign affairs select committee: “The central assessment that we were operating to, and it was certainly backed up by the #JIC (joint intelligence committee) and the military, is that the most likely, the central proposition, was that given the troop withdrawal by the end of August, you’d see a steady deterioration from that point and it was unlikely Kabul would fall this year.”

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