Pictured: Afghan and Western Special Forces in Helmand Province Afghanistan fighting the Taliban. A former SAS soldier has admitted to The Mail on Sunday that illegal killings were 'an unwritten rule of our job' but strongly defended the regiment's actions
* A former SAS soldier has admitted to The Mail on Sunday that illegal killings were 'an unwritten rule of our job' but strongly defended the regiment's actions
* His account comes after claims emerged that SAS members killed unarmed civilians in cold blood and falsified mission reports
* He revealed how he took part in 200 night raids between 2010 and 2013, many investigated as potential war crimes by the RMP
An SAS soldier has sensationally lifted the lid on the elite regiment’s controversial shoot-to-kill policy in Afghanistan – the subject of a multi-million pound investigation by military police.
In the first media interview with any SAS member to take part in operations included in the war crimes probe, the former trooper admitted to The Mail on Sunday that illegal killings were ‘an unwritten rule of our job’ but strongly defended the regiment’s actions.
His gripping account of top-secret night operations in Afghanistan comes after claims emerged that SAS members had killed unarmed civilians in cold blood and falsified mission reports.
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Update: ‘An unwritten rule of our job’ SAS soldier ‘lifts lid on illegal killings’ in Afghanistan (Express).
WNU Editor: This news is becoming public because of the fallout from the .... SAS accused of killing unarmed Afghan civilians (BBC). More here .... SAS witch hunt fears as Iraq 'torture' lawyers pursue elite regiment over Afghanistan night raids (The Telegraph), and here .... SAS soldiers 'suspected' of executing unarmed Afghans and covering up potential war crimes (The Independent).
2 comments:
Killing unarmed civilians, how is this different from the collateral damage on every drone or bombing sortie, I guess we have to expose and prosecute this every once in awhile to show how moral and ethical we are as a society, fucking joke. At least these Men are willing to get blood on their hands, the oh so moral society is shocked and outrage by this as they drink their slave picked coffee and eat their slave picked fruit, the hypocrisy of the Media and the society makes me want to puke.
Twn I understand what you mean and fake outrage is never correct. However, people are so busy and overwhelmed with their lives - handling two jobs while caring for family and friends - that when they go shopping they sometimes forget to buy fair-trade coffee. And on top you have all these scandals with coffee brands faking the fair trade and even the fair trade symbol/authentication institute accepting bribes. The problem is not so much the consumer who gets overwhelmed by all these fake choices - it's the producers and the corrupt politicians that close an eye to this. And the strongest offender and faker is anything backed by the Chinese. Check it.
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