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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod McGuirk

Australian war hero appeals court decision that blamed him for unlawful killings in Afghanistan

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Australia’s most decorated living war veteran lodged an appeal on Tuesday against a civil court ruling that blamed him for the unlawful killings of four Afghans.

Ben Roberts-Smith, who retired from Australia’s elite Special Air Service Regiment a decade ago, lost a landmark defamation suit on June 1 against newspapers that had accused him of an array of war crimes.

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