""Those are the people you call our "friends". Are they really our friends or are they simply ambitious people who see an opportunity? I think they are probably the latter in most cases.""

No LH, those aren't.

The four who came to the UK, were not government politicians. Each was a religious leader of considerable stature, and their overiding response was anger at how they had been conned by Taliban propaganda, and gratitude for the treatment here of their brethren.

Now they are going back to tell their countrymen how they've been lied to, and taken for fools.

I think that might have a wider and more positive effect than any politician's visit.

Don T.