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the number of soldiers claiming to have killed bin laden currently surpasses the number of active duty personnel in the US Army.
International British SAS 'Killed 9 People in Their Beds', Inquiry Finds
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Sex is sex, it doesn't matter if it is consensual or forced. Same thing, right?
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This has been going on forever. It's just that the 'official' stance has changed so it's really bad PR now so only special forces can easily get away with it. We had a Royal Marine sergeant who offed a wounded Taliban prisoner and ended up doing years in prison. Not even an innocent sleeping non-combatant.
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For the person committing rape it probably is. For the person receiving it no. However, the person who is raped at minimum has the potential to recover and possibly go on with their life, to not be defined by their rape. Someone who is killed has no such potential, they are just dead. How that's viewed, and any moralizing related to it, is left to the living.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67080825
Senior UK special forces officers had suspicions of a "deliberate policy" of murder by the SAS in Afghanistan but hid evidence, an inquiry heard.
In some cases they did nothing and in others "sought to prevent adequate investigation", a lawyer for families of those killed said.
Internal emails show "incredulity" at official reports of SAS night raids in which Afghans were killed, he said.
Concerns of SAS wrongdoing were widely known at the top of government.
A government lawyer previously said UK armed forces hold themselves to the highest standards.
On the third day of the independent inquiry, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was accused of misleading the High Court. The inquiry also heard that a senior lawyer told the second in command of UK special forces that the way reports of the incidents were being written up would "not bear scrutiny in years to come".
The probe was launched following a BBC Panorama investigation, which revealed that a SAS squadron killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances on one six-month tour.
It heard that the morning after one raid on 9 February 2011, in which eight people were killed, one special forces officer wrote to a colleague: "Whilst murder and the [SAS] have oft been regular bed-fellows, this is beginning to look bone!"
His colleague replied: "I find it depressing that is has come to this… Ultimately a massive failure of leadership… and when the next Wikileaks occurs then we will be dragged down with them."
The inquiry is seeking to establish if UK special forces carried out executions during operations in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013, as well as examining the alleged cover-up of illegal activity and inadequate investigations by the military police.
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Follow up article is worth a read for those interested. (NOTE: the above is a snippet)
Seems the reasoning behind the killings became a little bit unbelievable...
Senior UK special forces officers had suspicions of a "deliberate policy" of murder by the SAS in Afghanistan but hid evidence, an inquiry heard.
In some cases they did nothing and in others "sought to prevent adequate investigation", a lawyer for families of those killed said.
Internal emails show "incredulity" at official reports of SAS night raids in which Afghans were killed, he said.
Concerns of SAS wrongdoing were widely known at the top of government.
A government lawyer previously said UK armed forces hold themselves to the highest standards.
On the third day of the independent inquiry, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was accused of misleading the High Court. The inquiry also heard that a senior lawyer told the second in command of UK special forces that the way reports of the incidents were being written up would "not bear scrutiny in years to come".
The probe was launched following a BBC Panorama investigation, which revealed that a SAS squadron killed 54 people in suspicious circumstances on one six-month tour.
It heard that the morning after one raid on 9 February 2011, in which eight people were killed, one special forces officer wrote to a colleague: "Whilst murder and the [SAS] have oft been regular bed-fellows, this is beginning to look bone!"
His colleague replied: "I find it depressing that is has come to this… Ultimately a massive failure of leadership… and when the next Wikileaks occurs then we will be dragged down with them."
The inquiry is seeking to establish if UK special forces carried out executions during operations in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013, as well as examining the alleged cover-up of illegal activity and inadequate investigations by the military police.
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Follow up article is worth a read for those interested. (NOTE: the above is a snippet)
Seems the reasoning behind the killings became a little bit unbelievable...
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Look at the very post above yours.... you pretty much nailed it.
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