{"id":39380,"date":"2021-12-01T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/tragic-delays-documents-reveal-australia-knew-time-was-running-out-to-extract-afghan-staff"},"modified":"2021-12-01T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:30:08","slug":"tragic-delays-documents-reveal-australia-knew-time-was-running-out-to-extract-afghan-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39380","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tragic\u2019 delays: documents reveal Australia knew time was running out to extract Afghan staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Previously secret papers show charter flight considered \u2018high risk\u2019 a month before Kabul fell to Taliban<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Australian government was warned in mid-July that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/14\/australian-foreign-minister-was-told-to-close-embassy-before-may-visit-to-kabul-documents-reveal\">worsening security situation<\/a> in Afghanistan and Covid restrictions were making it \u201cextremely difficult\u201d to help former Afghan employees escape the country, previously secret documents reveal.<\/p>\n<p>At least five weeks before the Afghan capital fell to the Taliban in mid-August, government officials predicted more people would seek to flee the country and they were discussing the possibility of chartering direct flights from Kabul to Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/tragic-delays-documents-reveal-australia-knew-time-was-running-out-to-extract-afghan-staff\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Previously secret papers show charter flight considered \u2018high risk\u2019 a month before Kabul fell to TalibanGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Australian government was warned in mid-July that the worsening security situati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,1585,324,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39381,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39380\/revisions\/39381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}