It appears from classified documents that Berlingske has seen.
According to experts, the report questions Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod’s (S)’s claim of deficient intelligence from Afghanistan – including that analyzes and intelligence about the situation in Afghanistan were “completely decoupled from reality”.
That explanation does not quite hold water, says military analyst Hans Peter Michaelsen, whom Berlingske has asked to review the report.
– If the foreign minister or other ministers have known about the information in the report, then one can not say that the government had no indications that Kabul would fall this year. It makes the foreign minister’s statement appear a bit like washing hands, he tells the newspaper.
In the report, Colonel Timm Willum Larsen describes that the Afghan army is “challenged on virtually all parameters, and TB (Taliban, ed.) Is winning”, and that the security situation is “strongly challenged”.
In the Ministry of Defense, the press department informs Berlingske that neither the ministry nor the Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen (S) has received the report – or knew the contents of it.
However, the Liberal Party’s foreign affairs spokesman, Michael Aastrup Jensen, believes that the government has a huge explanatory problem in relation to Afghanistan.
– This illustrates the need for when the operation is hopefully successfully completed in a few days, then there must be a political aftermath and an independent investigation, he says to Ritzau.
– The process has clearly proven that there have been as many errors as one obviously, and I say obviously, have tried to hide, says Aastrup Jensen.
He will not answer what consequences the case may have for the responsible ministers. In addition to Jeppe Kofod, there is Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen (S).
Foreign Policy Rapporteur Eva Flyvholm From the Unity List believes, however, that the Liberal Party is also part of the reason for the late evacuation.
– The new report, which I assume the government has known, illustrates how strongly it went downhill in Afghanistan.
– But the decisive factor is unfortunately probably a political reluctance both from the government and the Left and Conservatives to take some people to Denmark and give them a visa.
– The internal immigration policy agenda in Denmark meant that they clung to the interpreting agreement for a long time, which meant that they could not evacuate groups of people in time, but had to process each case, says Eva Flyvholm.
The Radical Left takes the new classified documents very seriously.
– This is completely new information. We take this very seriously. It requires a statement when the evacuation is completed, says foreign affairs spokesman Martin Lidegaard, who is also chairman of the Foreign Policy Board.
Source: The Nordic Page