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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

‘Flat packing them’: soldier says SAS described killing Afghans in casual way

Members of the UK Armed Forces during the operation to support the evacuation of British nationals and entitled personnel at Kabul airport in Afghanistan
Summaries and redacted transcripts have been released from an inquiry into covert operations in Afghanistan. Photograph: Ben Shread/MoD/AFP/Getty Images

Afghans who were killed by members of the SAS in Afghanistan were described dismissively as having been “flat packed” according to revealing testimony given by a former member of the elite force’s sister unit to a public inquiry.

The soldier, known only as N1799, said he had been party to a conversation with a member of the SAS in 2011 who had served in Afghanistan, in which he had been “shocked by the age and methods” used to kill Afghans.

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