{"id":46413,"date":"2022-07-14T20:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jul\/14\/mod-considers-review-into-panoramas-sas-death-squad-claims-afghanistan"},"modified":"2022-07-14T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T11:59:03","slug":"mod-considers-review-after-panoramas-sas-death-squad-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46413","title":{"rendered":"MoD considers review after Panorama\u2019s SAS death squad claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiry not being ruled out after BBC reports on 54 allegedly suspicious killings by SAS unit in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>A UK defence minister has hinted that the government is considering a further inquiry or review of a pattern of 54 allegedly suspicious killings by SAS soldiers in Afghanistan, reported in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jul\/12\/ministry-of-defence-bbc-panorama-documentary-afghanistan-sas-civilians\">BBC Panorama programme earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>James Heappey told MPs on Thursday morning that the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, \u201crules nothing out\u201d, and that \u201che\u2019ll be back in touch with the House very shortly to say how he thinks this might be further reviewed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jul\/14\/mod-considers-review-into-panoramas-sas-death-squad-claims-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiry not being ruled out after BBC reports on 54 allegedly suspicious killings by SAS unit in AfghanistanA UK defence minister has hinted that the government is considering a further inquiry or review of a pattern of 54 allegedly suspicious killings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1808,997,938,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-defence-policy","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46414,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46413\/revisions\/46414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}