A special forces witness told the inquiry he believed an SAS unit had been ‘executing fighting age males’ in Afghanistan
Special forces soldiers in Afghanistan had a “golden pass allowing them to get away with murder”, a public inquiry into alleged war crimes has been told.
Evidence from seven UK special forces witnesses to the Afghanistan Inquiry was published on Wednesday as part of a release of material summarising the content of secret hearings.
Testimony from one individual, known as N2107, who had access to operational reports about the SAS’s activity in Afghanistan in 2011, showed that he began to doubt official accounts of how Afghans had died.
The witness told the inquiry he thought that UK special forces (UKSF) in Afghanistan seemed “beyond reproach” and had a “golden pass allowing them to get away with murder”.
The inquiry has been investigating alleged war crimes committed on raids by UKSF between 2010 and 2013. Members of the UKSF have been accused of killing unarmed Afghans, planting weapons on them, falsifying reports and then covering up the crimes.
Another individual, known by the cipher N1799, told the inquiry that he believed that an SAS unit had been executing “fighting age males” in Afghanistan. He claimed these dead Afghans had been described dismissively as having been “flat packed”.
In his witness statement, N1799 said he was told by a soldier from the unit that a pillow was put over the head of an individual before they were killed with a pistol.
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