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Australian SAS officers knew about unlawful ‘throwdowns’ on dead Afghans, report says
Nothing done to stop planting weapons on dead Afghans, ADF inspector says, as ‘breakdown of command’ allowed ‘egregious behaviour’Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastSome Australian SAS officers knew that soldiers under their command were using “throwdowns” – planting weapons on dead Afghan civilians to portray them as combatants – but did nothing to stop the unlawful practice, a previously unpublished military report has said.Posted online this week, the executive summary of a 2021 investigation into the “cultural context” of the special operations command by the insp...
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