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Senior officer issues extraordinary plea to the UK special forces community to ‘decide what you stand for’

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The head of the UK’s special forces (UKSF) knew soldiers had probably committed war crimes in Afghanistan but failed to act and conducted a “fake exercise” to cover it up, according to damning new testimony.