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An Australian SAS soldier aims his gun at an unarmed civilian in Afghanistan before killing him
THE “execution” of an unarmed civilian in Afghanistan by a member of Australia’s SAS must put paid to the notion that the war there is a peacekeeping operation, a leading peace campaigner has warned.
Video footage obtained this week by documentary makers Four Corners show the soldier shooting the unarmed man three times in the head and chest at close range in 2012.
Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German told the Morning Star that what a fellow Australian SAS member has termed a “straight-up execution” illustrated the injustice of the US-led presence in Afghanistan, which continues 19 years after the 2001 invasion.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
US General Stanley McChrystal has been invited to advise on creating a ‘team of teams’ for healthcare transformation. His credentials? He previously ran interrogation bases where Iraqis were stripped naked and beaten, reports SOLOMON HUGHES