A former senior UK Special Forces officer has told a public inquiry into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan that the SAS had a “golden pass allowing them to get away with murder”.

The accusation was published by the Afghanistan Inquiry on Wednesday as part of a release of material summarising seven closed hearings with members of UK Special Forces.

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    23 hours ago

    They’ve had that golden pass for a lot longer than the war in Afghanistan. They had carte blanche in N. Ireland, for example.

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      22 hours ago

      Not really, they certainly had secret executions but they were limited. And a lot of that was done by police or the militias. The army wasn’t just rolling around shooting people.

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    1 day ago

    Why the thumbnail looking like they ghostbustin’?

    They are literally in the business of creating ghosts.