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SAS had ‘golden pass’ for getting away with murder, Afghanistan Inquiry hears
The sun rises as a soldier from the 1st Battalion Royal Regiment Fusiliers covers from a ridge as they conduct a dawn patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand Province, Afghanistan after leaving base Sterga 2, October 2013

A SPECIAL forces officer admitted that the SAS had a “golden pass” for getting away with murder, in new evidence released today from an inquiry into alleged war crimes by British soldiers in Afghanistan.

The Afghanistan inquiry held seven closed-door hearings in which members of the special forces gave evidence about night-time raids carried out between 2010 and 2013.

In material released today, one officer, known as N2107, who had access to operational reports about SAS actions, said in an email in 2011 that the SAS seemed “beyond reproach” and had a “golden pass allowing them to get away with murder.”

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