01.11.2016 - 07:15 [ the Times ]

SAS faces Iraq ‘mercy killings’ investigation

(17.10.2016) Military police are looking into the comments attributed to Sergeant Colin Maclachlan in an early draft of a book he co-authored. It is not yet a formal investigation.

The SAS veteran and star of the Channel 4 series Who Dares Wins described how a unit of soldiers allegedly shot dead “two or three” Iraqi soldiers who had been mortally wounded in an attack near the town of al-Qaim, close to the Syrian border,