Whistleblower of alleged special forces murders fears being branded traitor A member of UK special forces who reported the alleged “flat-packing” murders of civilians in Afghanistan has told an inquiry they fear they will be branded a traitor for coming forward, documents have shown.
N1799 said in his witness statement that the account given by the UKSF member in question, N1201, was in “juxtaposition” with a talk given by commanding officers months earlier that “UKSF does not operate outside of the law.”.
A partial transcript of the hearing read: “I don’t want to just sit here and make stuff up but I just know that it felt more shocking than, I mean, look it’s not great reading, obviously it’s shocking reading this, but I just feel it was slightly more graphic… words that have been used about killing were like ‘flat packing’, ‘flat packing them’.
The Afghanistan Inquiry has held a series of closed hearings in which members of special forces (UKSF) have given evidence about the alleged murders in the war-torn nation between 2010 and 2013.
The witness said a note he had provided to officers of the conversation with N1201 was not as “graphic” as what he had actually said.
