Showing posts with label SAS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SAS. Show all posts
Richard Norton Taylor - writing in Declassified UK. Recommended by Christy Walsh.

12-October-2023

An independent inquiry has heard shocking allegations of how SAS soldiers engaged in a “widespread and systematic pattern of unlawful extrajudicial killings” - which were known at the highest levels of the UK government, even in Downing St, but covered up for years.

The judge-led inquiry was forced on a reluctant Ministry of Defence (MoD) after allegations surfaced repeatedly in the media before families of Afghans killed by SAS troops, including the execution of Afghan males of “fighting age” between 2010 and 2013, took the claims to the high court.

The inquiry has heard devastating allegations, some of them privately backed at the time by serving SAS troops, that were persistently ignored. Commanders attempted to block investigations by the military police, according to detailed claims backed up by witnesses.

Computer records of SAS activities are reported to have been permanently and deliberately wiped before they could be shown to military investigators.

The inquiry is particularly significant with the combination of a catalogue of allegations backed up by detailed evidence shedding unprecedented light on the SAS, the least accountable of organs of the British state.

Continue reading @ Declassified UK.

Whitehall’s Cover-Up Of SAS Killings In Afghanistan

The Sunday Times Insight Team A High Court case brought by a young man whose family were shot dead suggests a horrifying pattern of night-raid killings, cover-ups and ‘collective amnesia’ by soldiers in a crack army special forces unit.



Incendiary documentary evidence has emerged in a British court in which allegations are made about a “rogue” SAS unit accused of executing civilians in Afghanistan.

The evidence had been withheld from earlier proceedings of the legal case, prompting a judge to demand a full explanation from Ben Wallace, the defence secretary.

The cache of emails, notes and reports from inside the SAS — the like of which has never been seen before — reveal that special forces commanders were highly concerned about the killing of more than 33 people in the space of three months during night raids on their homes.

There was a particular pattern in which men were captured and then killed when the SAS sent them back into their houses at gunpoint. The Sunday Times has pieced together the disturbing evidence, which raises serious questions about whether war crimes have been covered up.

Continue reading @ The Sunday Times.

‘Rogue SAS Afghanistan Execution Squad’ Exposed By Email Trail

Anthony McIntyre on a night of conversation with the former SAS Colonel, Clive Fairweather.

Upon learning of his demise, and as a result of a curious Edinburgh encounter some years earlier, I intended writing something up on Clive Fairweather who died in October 2012 after a short illness. Going on a hunt for my handwritten notes dissuaded me given that after a house move and a six year hiatus they could be anywhere and might take weeks to find. No exaggeration, given that it took almost three weeks for me to find a recording of an interview my wife and I once conducted for The Blanket with PSNI Chief Constable, Hugh Orde: something else that had fallen into the pit as a result of the move.

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