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Luke Costin

Claim Roberts-Smith ordered 2012 murder

War hero Ben Roberts-Smith told Afghan soldiers to shoot a detained local man "or I will" during a 2012 SAS mission, a serving soldier says.

The allegedly murdered man had been under questioning inside a building towards the end of the mission in Khaz Uruzgan in Afghanistan in 2012, the Federal Court was told on Friday.

The serving soldier, codenamed Person 14, testified that Mr Roberts-Smith walked up to an interpreter and pointed at members of the Afghan soldiers also inside the building.

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