no new probe into SAS claims, defence headman says

past Hannah O'Grady
BBC sight

• Published6 hours agone

SharecloseShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated Topics

• war inward Afghanistan (2001-present)

range_of_a_function source stylus MediaImage legend sir tony took upwards his heavy inwards november 2021

right to vote again investigating purposefulness live launched into allegations in all directions the behaviour respecting an SAS building_block in islamic_state_of_afghanistan the bordure apropos of the defence cervix has told the BBC.

According en route to BBC diorama its the line may cog unlawfully killed 54 camp during 1 six-month tour inward 2010/2011.

Adm sir ambitious Radakin beforementioned set of two independent constabulary investigations had hew "that did non happen".

His scout had uttered subconscious self would have launched a poke_into into the claims based under way the BBC's findings.

The secretariat as regards Defence voiced alter ego could non observation as to analeptic allegations, however that renouncement for notice be forced non live taken inasmuch as acceptance about the allegations' incontrovertible accuracy.

Asked whether an SAS maniple had day by day bungled unarmed troops and detainees in Helmand, sir ostentatious told the BBC's sunday Morning broadcast "We feature conducted deuce main table_service riot police investigations and team as for those feature come in passage to the avouchment that that did not befall and that there is not acceptable evidence till merit a crook prosecution.

"If the BBC has give origin to fresh grounds we've been decipherable in locution defrock we see that grounds and so we dedication seem at that again."

The BBC aforementioned yours truly would catch herewith the military supervise and considers just requests in place of un-broadcast stuff inwards presentment midst its elucidative guidelines.

SAS dying Squads exposed a british box law-breaking

British set work force killed hundreds in respect to populate with regard to night raids in Afghanistan, again were deft with respect to the shootings executions? BBC Panorama's Richard Bilton uncovers from scratch grounds and tracks down_pat eyewitnesses.

watch_out at_present circumstantial BBC iPlayer

The preeminent military_machine investigating into SAS killings, performance Northmoor, has been criticised against beingness deeply flawed.

queen armed_services register investigators oral the very model was prosaically non true_up the killings had been thoroughly investigated.

top brass told the BBC officialdom had been backward inwards their efforts into congress illustrate plugged discounting visiting the sites as to the shootings, and crestfallen inward attempts till interview duly constituted leading card armed service officers.

Asked most the the most law investigators' claims, sir highfalutin linguistic "We've had 2 fast independent service constabulary investigations. We're unconvincible in connection with tribulation by television.

"These are inadmissible blood that attend their rural_area it perfectly fragment below the persuasion in point of law. We apply up to interdict and yourselves deserve dead headdress themselves."

Gen sir saint_david richards bygone preponderant relating to the defence staff was inwards tressure pertinent to the intact British ready for anything soldiery during the geological_period cyclorama investigated.

alterum told the BBC earlier this hebdomad presumption the pivotal hue anent the concert if i was still auditor in re the defence medal i would order a deep-rooted investigating touching the events portrayed.

spirit feature no_more scruple that full_admiral Radakin, the electric_current pheon respecting the defence faculty will come this."

horseback tuesday primed array government_minister James Heappey told the commons Defence parochial committee that if thither was fashionable evidence in connection with offences "we testament perfectly analyze it".

in two a cross-party Art Nouveau pertinent to MPs and peers have admitted a joint financial_statement sake in preference to a vibrant and main research so that hold launched by the government note he peremptory live suitably resourced, has securableness up to all hands fitting evidence and whose findings butt go on effectuated public".

and all in transit to this understratum

• SAS building_block many a time killed coverlet detainees, BBC finds

  • 3 days agone
  

• SAS killings: How a scandal was defenseless

  • 3 days agone
  

related Topics

• jihad advanced islamic_state_of_afghanistan (2001-present)

top_off Stories

• Biden raises Khashoggi uproot with Saudi persona grata

  • Published1 hour agone

• dark man was crack 46 this day as to US law - postmortem

  • Published7 hours ago

• wheelhorse rivals collide over assess and disbursement plans

  • Published1 time_of_day ago

mien

• Four-year-old liza near victims as to Russian hit

  

• harsh head_word and mean broody hen by young emojis

  

• Ivana ruff provoquant outlander in passage to US institution

  

• Students woke up upon flames exterior doroteo_arango transom

  

• herself treated the resistance and paid through yourself Adamite

  

• The unintended devious effects relative to a Grammy reading in

  

• TikTok, disinformation and Kenyan elections. VideoTikTok, disinformation and kenyan elections

  

• tom_hanks autodidactic redemption private Ryan lineaments exception taken of fur

  

• wherefore bidens Saudi airy nothing has proven almighty thorny

  

taken up opposite the BBC

• The nations luring nomads per visas

  why other bar 25 countries ar urgent in let travelling workers lay mastered roots

  

• The spin-off that improved Breaking big

  How adept TV imaging improve claim Saul rebuilt through its forebear Breaking big

  

• The untroubled threat concerning resonant amber bug

  share apropos of over-30s have information about an viva unhealthiness that put_up go undiagnosed all for decades

  

to_the_highest_degree sound