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British embassy personnel, other british nationals who were in afghanistan working in various capacities and crucially hundreds, perhaps 2000 afghans who had worked with the british over the years. that was always going to happen. but it is happening in a hurried and chaotic and alarming way. here we are, we have got thousands of british and american troops being sentin british and american troops being sent in at the last minute to oversee this process and to make sure it happen smoothly at a time when no one knows if they are going to be able to carry on using civilian aircraft or to switch to military aircraft, no one knows how quickly the taliban advance on capital will develop and whether new sets of contingency plans will have to be put in place at the last minute. they had hoped it would be an organised process done calmly without raising any alarms, and it is beginning to look like saigon in ....