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On Monday evidence of war crimes committed by British troops in Afghanistan between 2010 to 2013 was released as part of an independent judge-led inquiry.
According to the documents, British special forces carried out 80 extra-judicial executions, including the killing of children. These soldiers did not face repercussions, despite the army chain of command being aware of the activity since February 2011. The former UK special forces director and other top military officers even tried to cover up these crimes.
“When you look back on it, on those people who died unnecessarily from that point onwards, there were two toddlers shot in their bed next to their parents, you know, all that would not…necessarily have come to pass if that had been stopped,” one senior officer, identified only by his cipher N1466 said on page 39 of the document.
“N1466 was a senior member of the UK Special Forces (“UKSF”). Between 2010 and 2011, he was the Assistant Chief of Staff (“ACOS”) for Operations in the Special Forces Headquarters. N1466 gave evidence about how he first became concerned about the conduct of UKSF on deployment in Afghanistan, and what steps he took to investigate those concerns and raise them with the Director of Special Forces,” the document said.
Note the following images are not the soldiers implicated or quoted in the war crime allegations, they are however British soldiers in Afghanistan:
Embed from Getty ImagesEmbed from Getty ImagesSOUTHEASTERN AFGHANISTAN – JUNE19: British marine commandos leave a Chinook helicopter during Operation Buzzard June 18, 2002 in southeastern Afghanistan. Britain is expected to begin withdrawing its 1,700 troops currently deployed in Afghanistan by the end of June 2002. (Photo by Scott Nelson/Getty Images)
AFGHANISTAN – JULY 8: British Royal Marines of 45 Commando briefly question local Afghan men with AK-47’s during an eagle vehicle check point (VCP) operation as part of the ongoing Operation Buzzard July 8, 2002 in southeastern Afghanistan. During VCPs, small groups of marines are dropped quickly by helicopters to search random vehicles on dirt roads and trails near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters freedom of movement across the region. (Photo by Scott Nelson/Getty Images)
“I will be clear we are talking about war crimes… we are talking about taking detainees back on target and executing them with, with a pretense, the pretense being that they conducted violence against the, the forces. I’m being very blunt there, but that was, that was what I felt at the time,” N1466 said.
There were multiple examples in the court documents of Afghan detainees being taken on raids and then being shot dead, suspicion of weapons being planted on Afghanis after they had been shot and Afghans shot in the head at close range, possibly as they slept.
“The director … made a conscious decision that he is going to suppress this, cover this up and do a little fake exercise to make it look like he’s done something,” N1466 said.
Another special forces officer, N5461, described EJK [extra judicial killings] which took place against Afghanis by British troops.
“Let’s be clear, EJK [extra judicial killings] happened in Afghanistan, we know that increasingly in court and that’s probably just the tip of the iceberg…[UK special forces] are not immune to it,” N5461 said in the document.
“The government is fully committed to supporting the independent inquiry relating to Afghanistan as it continues its work, and we are hugely grateful to all former and current defense employees who have so far given evidence,” a Ministry of Defence spokesperson said. “We also remain committed to providing the support that our special forces deserve, whilst maintaining the transparency and accountability that the British people rightly expect from their armed forces. It is appropriate that we await the outcome of the inquiry’s work before commenting further.”
Of note, that same British government has imported about 31,000 Afghanis into Britain between 2001 and 2021.
“There are two immigration routes for people affected by the situation in Afghanistan: the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme and the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy,” a document titled UK immigration schemes for Afghan nationals said, citing data from the UK government’s Afghan Resettlement Program operational data.
Embed from Getty ImagesAn Afghan refugee has his fingerprints taken on arrival on an evacuation flight from Afghanistan, at Heathrow Airport, London on August 26, 2021. A terrorist threat against Kabul airport is “very serious” and “imminent”, Britain’s armed forces minister James Heappey said on August 26, 2021, as the UK was planning 11 flights out of Kabul airport in the next 24 hours. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DOMINIC LIPINSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
In 2021 a British government page described a new way for Afghanis to enter Britain – the “Bespoke resettlement route for Afghan refugees”:
Embed from Getty ImagesThousands of Afghan women, children and others most in need will be welcomed to the UK under one of the most generous resettlement schemes in our country’s history.
Those who have been forced to flee their home or face threats of persecution from the Taliban will be offered a route to set up home in the UK permanently.
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – AUGUST 21: In this handout image provided by the Ministry of Defence, the British armed forces work with the U.S. military to evacuate eligible civilians and their families out of the country on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. British armed forces have been evacuation UK citizens and eligible personnel out of the Afghan capital after the Taliban took control of the country last week. (Photo by MoD Crown Copyright via Getty Images)
According to Migration Watch UK, about 7,000 Afghanis were imported to Britain through this new method after Afghanistan was handed back to the Taliban in April 2021. These Afghan imports were supposed to be kept secret from the public, but the data was leaked.
Many more Afghanis are suspected to have entered Britain illegally. According to The Spectator:
Embed from Getty ImagesIn 2024 alone, more than 5,700 Afghans arrived by small boat across the English Channel, making them the most common nationality using this route.
Since 2018, 27,285 Afghans have arrived via small boats or other forms of irregular migration.
Refugees in the jungle of Calais claimed their rights to pass in Great Britain. Singing "UK" like one man, they will be blocked and pushed back in the camp by teargas and flashball fired by the anti-riot Policemen. Calais in Setques, France on October 1 ,2016. (Photo by Julien Mattia/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
According to the BBC, “Afghans are the second largest group of migrants coming to the UK illegally in small boats.”
Embed from Getty ImagesTOPSHOT – Refugees and migrants arrive on the Lesbos island, on October 23, 2015, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey . Greece has seen a record 48,000 migrants and refugees land on its shores in the space of just five days, the International Organization for Migration said on October 23. They are among more than 600,000 people, mainly fleeing violence in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, who have braved the dangerous sea journey to Europe so far this year. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)
Afghanis have an average IQ of 71.97 according to one source, and 82.1 according to another source. Individuals with an IQ in the low 70’s are considered mentally retarded.
Afghanistan has the 9th highest rate of criminality in the world as of 2023, according to the Global Organized Crime Index.
Embed from Getty ImagesTOPSHOT – Taliban security personnel stand guard as an Afghan burqa-clad woman (R) walks along a street at a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province on February 26, 2024. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
The U.S. recently experienced its own Afghani attack in the nation’s capital. Interestingly, that attacker had a close background interacting with American forces.
The Afghani implicated in the shooting two National Guardsmen in Washington DC was traumatized by his experiences fighting in a CIA-backed “death squad” in Afghanistan.
“When he saw blood, bodies, and the wounded, he could not tolerate it,” said a childhood friend of 29-year-old terror suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who settled in Washington State after fleeing Afghanistan in 2021, following Biden’s disastrous withdrawal.
Soon after that Afghani attacked, another attempted to attack.
“An Afghan national brought to the U.S. by the Biden regime was arrested for threatening to ‘blow up a building’ in Texas just a day before one of his fellow countrymen ambushed two National Guard soldiers this week in Washington, D.C., authorities say,” Infowars reported.
Over 5,000 Afghans that were brought to the U.S. by the Biden administration after the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan were flagged as “national security” threats.
The U.S. also had its own Middle East torture scandal, yet that one broke much earlier.
When taken as a whole, the West’s military adventures in the Middle East and replacement migration from that very same region are nothing more than two pieces of the same problem-reaction-solution strategy.
