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British troops training at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan in 2011
AN INDEPENDENT inquiry into disturbing allegations that SAS operatives routinely killed unarmed men during the Afghanistan war will begin early next year, a minister announced today.
Defence minister Andrew Murrison said the statutory inquiry will investigate alleged unlawful activity by military personnel during detention operations, also known as “kill or capture” raids, between mid-2010 to mid-2013.
The probe will also look at allegations that the killings were subsequently covered up by senior officers.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion
