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Talking About Taliban Killers Is Taboo In The UK -- The Guardian
Increasing and controversial role for the much-praised SAS in Afghanistan cloaked in official secrecy.
Britain's special forces played an important role in Iraq, and in Libya. In Afghanistan, relentless special forces operations are killing 130 to 140 insurgent leaders every month, according to Lt Gen James Bucknall, the most senior British military figure in the country.
In an interview in the Guardian this week, the General hailed the actions of the SAS, suggesting they were the key to defeating the Taliban.
For years, the SAS and the SBS (the Special Boat Service) have been conducting night raids, often with US special forces, capturing and killing individuals identified - sometimes correctly, sometimes not - as Taliban commanders and their supporters.
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My Comment: The same can be said about US Special Forces. Discretion and secrecy is the rule, because there are those among the enemy who may go to the ends of the earth to exact revenge (or worse).
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