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Although visas were granted for his 24 staff and their dependents, Pen refused to leave without his pets and is aiming to get 200 dogs and cats out of the country.
It was feared he’d run out of time to make it out of the country as the UK wound down its evacuation mission today.
His ‘Operation Ark’ campaign became hugely successful on social media but Wallace complained it was distracting those focusing on evacuating the most vulnerable. However today the Ministry of Defence announced Pen and his animals were on the brink of escape.In a tweet, the MoD said: ‘Pen Farthing and his pets were assisted through the system at Kabul airport by the UK Armed Forces. They are currently being supported while he awaits transportation.INTERESTING FACT ABOUT YOUR PET: There are 49 domesticated rabbit breeds recognized by the American Rabbit Breeders Association.
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Earlier today Wallace said MoD staff had faced abuse from Pen’s supporters.
Pen claimed on social media his team and the rescue animals had managed to reach Kabul Airport on Thursday, only to be ‘turned away’ due to changes in paperwork rules made by the US some hours earlier.Speaking to LBC, Wallace said: ‘I think it has taken up too much time of my senior commanders dealing with this issue when they should be focused on dealing with the humanitarian crisis.’
The Defence Secretary used a series of tweets yesterday to hit out at the criticism from Pen’s supporters and condemned ‘bullying, falsehoods and threatening behaviour’ towards MoD staff.Here’s looking at you. Dogs have three eyelids, an upper lid, a lower lid and the third lid, called a nictitating membrane or “haw,” which helps keep the eye moist and protected.
Wallace, when asked about his tweets, told LBC: ‘My people were focused for the last two weeks on a humanitarian crisis.
‘I had to listen sometimes to calls of abuse to my advisers, to my officials, based mainly on falsehoods, that somebody, somewhere had blocked a flight – no-one blocked a flight.
‘Fundamentally, as we have seen on the media, there are desperate, desperate people, and I was not prepared to push those people out of the way for that.
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‘When people’s time is right, they were called forward, and that’s the right thing to do. But I hope he comes back, he was advised to come back, his wife came back last Friday, so I hope he does as well.’
Pen said his team were 300 metres inside Kabul Airport on Thursday but were turned away. He was in a car when he was caught up in the terror attack that killed Afghan civilians queuing up to flee the Taliban and US troops.At least 170 people are thought to have lost their lives, including 13 US service members.
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He tweeted: ‘Went through hell to get there & we were turned away into the chaos of those devastating explosions.’
Wallace said today that Britain’s evacuation effort in Kabul has entered its final hours and has largely ended processing new evacuees, with the Baron Hotel processing centre now closed.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at [email protected] .
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