The Sunday Edition: The SAS murders and the conspiracy to cover them up - Part 2
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🗓️ 12 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Sunday Times’ investigative team, Insight, has 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 two, we hear about the methods used to stymie, block and obstruct the course of justice.
This episode was originally published on 10 May 2024.
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Guests:
- Jonathan Calvert, Insight investigative team editor, The Sunday Times
- George Arbuthnott, Insight investigative team deputy editor, The Sunday Times.
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Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Edward Drummond.
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| 0:47.8 | Hi, it's Edward here, one of the producers on the story. Today we're replaying an episode I made last year with the Sunday Times Insight |
| 0:56.7 | Investigations team on the ongoing inquiry into Special Forces killings in Afghanistan. |
| 1:03.6 | With news this week of government reticence to appoint General Sir Gwynne Jenkins, a former |
| 1:08.1 | special forces commander as head of the armed forces due to questions arising from the inquiry, we thought it was a good time to revisit this two-part |
| 1:15.7 | podcast. This is part two, so if you've not heard part one, which republished yesterday, |
| 1:22.7 | it's worth going back and listening to that first. We'll be back as normal tomorrow. |
| 1:34.1 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 1:38.9 | I'm Manvien Rana. |
| 1:43.9 | Thank you. This story is a catalogue of scandal, one of the most shocking that I've ever come across. |
| 1:56.0 | It's a story about a rogue unit of the SAS, the most elite of British troops, who went on a murdering spree |
| 2:04.3 | in Afghanistan, killing innocent civilians in cold blood. It's also the story of the cover-up that |
| 2:13.4 | followed, both within the military and at the heart of government. |
| 2:18.4 | To understand the extent of the scandal, you really need to go back to the start in 2011. |
| 2:24.6 | So if you missed the podcast yesterday, do go back and listen to that first. |
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