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MORE scrutiny over British special forces and drones should be given to MPs, a parliamentary committee is warning today.
The call comes days after the Morning Star revealed how SAS Sergeant Matt Tonroe, the only British soldier to die fighting Isis in Syria, was killed by friendly fire.
MPs currently have no oversight of special forces raids and the government refused to answer a question in Parliament about Sgt Tonroe’s death.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion
