A member of the British special forces who reported an alleged “flat-packing” approach to the murders of civilians in Afghanistan has told an inquiry they fear for their personal well-being after speaking out, documents have shown.
Members of special forces (UKSF) have given evidence about the alleged murders that took place between 2010 and 2013 during a series of closed meetings at the Afghanistan Inquiry.
The witness told the inquiry they had participated in training with someone from the accused unit, UKSF1, where they had allegedly spoken about what happened on operations.
Known to the inquiry only as N1799, the witness said in a statement that the account given by the UKSF member in question, N1201, was in “juxtaposition” with a talk given by commanding officers months earlier that “UKSF does not operate outside of the law”.
They told the inquiry they feared for their personal well-being when they made the allegation against UKSF1, adding: “I still do now.”
The witness said a note they had provided to officers of the conversation with N1201 was not as “graphic” as what they had actually said.
A partial transcript of the hearing read: “I don’t want to just sit here and make stuff up but I just know that it felt more shocking than, I mean, look, it’s not great reading, obviously it’s shocking reading this, but I just feel it was slightly more graphic … words that have been used about killing were like ‘flat packing’, ‘flat...
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