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 evidence on their identities raised fears that they could be targeted by the Taliban The British executive disclosed the existence of the resettlement venture 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 issued in error in and extracts were later published online That prompted the then-Conservative authorities to set up a secret initiative to resettle the Afghans The governing body 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 leadership revealed it was making the activity community It announced an independent review had revealed little evidence that the leaked information would expose Afghans to greater hazard of retribution from the Taliban Source