The former head of Britain’s special forces and senior officers in the chain of command attempted to conceal warnings that SAS units were carrying out unlawful killings in Afghanistan, a public inquiry has heard.
A whistleblower, identified only as N1466, told the inquiry that senior commanders failed to stop alleged extrajudicial killings — including the shooting of two small children — after he first raised concerns in early 2011, The Guardian reported. That failure, he said, allowed the alleged incidents to continue until at least 2013.
