The Saturday Edition: The SAS murders and the conspiracy to cover them up - Part 1
The Story
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🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week the Times revealed that ministers are considering bringing back a retired military chief to lead the armed forces amid concerns the likely frontrunner, General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, has been tainted by an independent inquiry into alleged unlawful activity by UK Special Forces in Afghanistan. Government sources stress that Jenkins has supported the inquiry.
Last year, The Sunday Times’ investigative team, Insight, combed through 6,000 top secret documents to piece together the story of multiple military and government cover ups into the murder of civilians during the Afghan conflict. Today, in part one, we hear about the senior special forces commander, codename N1466, who blew the whistle.
This episode was originally published on 9 May 2024.
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- Jonathan Calvert, Insight investigative team editor, The Sunday Times, and
- George Arbuthnott, Insight investigative team deputy editor, The Sunday Times.
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| 2:03.5 | This week, Larissa Brown, defence editor at the Times, revealed that ministers are considering |
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