An Afghan hero who risked enemy fire carrying the body of a British special forces soldier down a mountain alongside the now-Veterans Minister Al Carns has been attacked and tortured while fleeing from the Taliban.
It comes amid further horrific executions this week of Afghans who worked with British forces, as the ‘revenge of the Taliban’ steps up pace since it was revealed the Government had lost a database and put 100,000 people ‘at risk of death’.
Ministers obtained a super-injunction to hush-up the blunder for two years.
Ahmad was an Afghan soldier who worked with the SAS and SBS. He is in hiding in Iran where he and his family fled from Taliban revenge squads. He faces deportation back to Afghanistan where, he says, ‘certain punishment, likely execution’ awaits.
Yet in the past few days, while waiting to hear if he can relocate to safety in the UK as a reward for his loyalty fighting with British forces, he has been tortured by thugs linked to the Taliban who broke and cut the fingers on his right hand. The Daily Mail has seen gruesome photos, which are too shocking to publish, of Ahmad's injuries.
