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 input on their identities raised fears that they could be targeted by the Taliban The British authorities disclosed the existence of the resettlement scheme 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 disclosed in error in and extracts were later published online That prompted the then-Conservative governing body to set up a secret initiative to resettle the Afghans The ruling 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 authorities disclosed it was making the plan residents It reported an independent review had detected little evidence that the leaked facts would expose Afghans to greater hazard of retribution from the Taliban Source