The famous ‘who dares wins’ regiment finally faces serious scrutiny over its Afghan night raids, even as those involved in a cover up are promoted to highest office.
At last the lid is coming off special forces operations, revealing specific and detailed accusations that senior British military figures have been desperate to suppress.
It is alleged that troops from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) took the law into their own hands and committed “multiple murders” that were “deliberately covered up”.
This was how Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, an appeal court judge, last week described evidence he had heard from British special forces officers.
Haddon-Cave made the comments at the inquiry he chairs into 80 suspicious deaths on SAS counter-terrorism raids in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013.
So far, the evidence has been heard mostly in secret. But despite the best efforts of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to block it, damning details are becoming public.
And the repercussions in one of the most secret corners of the British state should be huge.
‘Unacceptable’
The inquiry was forced on a reluctant MoD after increasingly credible claims of cold-blooded murder . . .
At last the lid is coming off special forces operations, revealing specific and detailed accusations that senior British military figures have been desperate to suppress.
It is alleged that troops from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) took the law into their own hands and committed “multiple murders” that were “deliberately covered up”.
This was how Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, an appeal court judge, last week described evidence he had heard from British special forces officers.
Haddon-Cave made the comments at the inquiry he chairs into 80 suspicious deaths on SAS counter-terrorism raids in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013.
So far, the evidence has been heard mostly in secret. But despite the best efforts of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to block it, damning details are becoming public.
And the repercussions in one of the most secret corners of the British state should be huge.
‘Unacceptable’
The inquiry was forced on a reluctant MoD after increasingly credible claims of cold-blooded murder . . .
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