Members of an SAS squadron could face a murder investigation after a former colleague claimed that they were involved in mercy killings in Iraq 13 years ago. 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,…

Source: The Times October 16, 2016 23:01 UTC