SAS Execution Squads : Cover Up continues...

[beefybake]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68332923

 

That was on the front page of the BBC yesterday morning.

By early afternoon, it had disappeared. Only found it again by googling some of the key words.

 

Funny isn't it, you invade someone else's country. The locals rise up, and somehow they're the terrorists.

Your special forces set about executing innocent people. And it all ends as it always deserved to, in ignominious defeat,

and scrambles for the last flights out of the country. I'm trying, failing, to find some moral superiority over current events.

 

Armed Forces Minister James Heappey is my local MP.  Prior to going into politics, he was an army officer, and was in Afghanistan.

Always a  big supporter of anything to do with the forces, looks like he's being accused of straightforward lying here.

 

Wonder if that's why the report had such a very, very short time on the front page.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 21 by beefybake

[MazzyStar]

Why the f**k do the SAS have any say on who can claim asylum and who can’t? 

[Sherrif John Bunnell]

Johnny Mercer acting like he is Johnny Tightlips

During his first day of testimony to the inquiry on Tuesday, Mr Mercer repeatedly refused to provide the names of members of UK Special Forces who had given him first and second-hand accounts of alleged SAS war crimes.

Returning to the matter on Wednesday, the inquiry chairman Lord Justice Haddon-Cave called the minister's refusal "completely unacceptable".

"You need to decide which side you are really on, Mr Mercer," Lord Justice Haddon-Cavesaid. "Is it assisting the inquiry fully, and the public interest and the national interest in getting to the truth of these allegations quickly, for everyone's sake?

"Or is it being part of what is in effect an 'omerta', a wall of silence."

The chairman went on to tell Mr Mercer that his refusal gave rise to "potentially serious legal consequences which I may need to put in train". The inquiry can legally compel Mr Mercer to hand over information if he were to continue to refuse to provide the names.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68358760

[scottsdad]

Oh, those SAS execution squad scamps, up to their old high jinks again. 

[D Angelo Barksdale]

These Afghan fellows are probably decent enough lads, but the article clearly states they've been working closely with terrorists under suspicion of committing war crimes.

Joking aside, Normal Island thread for this.

[SH Panda]

Good to keep this story in the spotlight, anything that doesn't end in serious jail time for a number of people would be an egregious miscarriage of justice.

The SAS are just the trigger men, the UK and the US are fairly open in assassinating political opponents in foreign countries, as well as kidnapping and torturing others.

It makes our holier than thou attitude towards other countries doing the same a bit bizarre.

Such tactics are spreading, India murdered a dissident in Canada recently. Nothing will be done about it.

[Wacky]

2 hours ago, SH Panda said:

anything that doesn't end in serious jail time for a number of people would be an egregious miscarriage of justice.

There’s less than no chance of this happening, in fact these people will feel they deserve a raise and more zeros on their pension plans for their part in this.