On 12 April 2009, the SAS arrive in the village of Kakarak in Afghanistan\u2019s Uruzgan province. It\u2019s a Taliban stronghold where an Australian soldier was killed just a month earlier. It\u2019s here, in a compound known as Whiskey 108, that one of the most contested events in this extraordinary defamation trial take place. In their defence, the newspapers allege that at Whiskey 108 Ben Roberts-Smith murdered an Afghan man with a prosthetic leg and ordered a junior member of his patrol to murder another Afghan man as part of a military \u2018blooding\u2019 ritual. Roberts-Smith strenuously denies these claims and says the two men who were killed were legitimate engagements shot lawfully in the heat of battle.<\/p>\n
In this episode, Ben Doherty<\/strong> takes us inside the raid on Whiskey 108. We hear evidence presented by Ben Roberts-Smith and others who support his version of events, as well as witnesses for the newspapers, read by voice actors<\/p>\n To help listeners follow along, we have created a graphic to show which soldiers the court heard were present at the Whiskey 108 compound on 12 April 2009, and who are most relevant to this episode. You can find it here.<\/a><\/p>\n
![You can find it here.<\/a><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 12 April 2009, the SAS arrive in the village of Kakarak in Afghanistan\u2019s Uruzgan province. It\u2019s a Taliban stronghold where an Australian soldier was killed just a month earlier. It\u2019s here, in a compound known as Whiskey 108, that one of the most con…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[46,43,681,1585,2267,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-media","category-australian-military","category-ben-roberts-smith","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49477,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49476\/revisions\/49477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/uploads-origin.guim.co.uk\/2022\/10\/19\/Whiskey108Graphic2.jpg\"){kind=link}