{"id":56459,"date":"2023-07-05T22:32:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jul\/05\/afghanistan-alleged-unlawful-killings-sas-mod-hearing"},"modified":"2023-07-05T22:32:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T13:32:03","slug":"sas-must-be-named-in-inquiry-into-alleged-unlawful-killings-says-afghan-families-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56459","title":{"rendered":"SAS must be named in inquiry into alleged unlawful killings, says Afghan families\u2019 lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MoD acknowledged at preliminary hearing that \u2018UK special forces\u2019 were present in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>A partial admission by the defence secretary that UK special forces were present in Afghanistan risks discrediting a public inquiry investigating allegations of unlawful killings by the SAS, according to a lawyer representing victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hermer KC said Ben Wallace had made only \u201ca semi-concession\u201d in a preliminary hearing on Wednesday, when the minister made a rare acknowledgment that \u201cUK special forces\u201d were present in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/jul\/05\/afghanistan-alleged-unlawful-killings-sas-mod-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoD acknowledged at preliminary hearing that \u2018UK special forces\u2019 were present in AfghanistanA partial admission by the defence secretary that UK special forces were present in Afghanistan risks discrediting a public inquiry investigating allegations of&#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":[46,1808,938,2290,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-military","category-ministry-of-defence","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\/56459","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=56459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56460,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56459\/revisions\/56460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}