© George Arbuthnott , Jonathan Calvert and David Collins
The evidence had been withheld from earlier proceedings of the legal case, prompting a judge to demand a full explanation from Ben Wallace, the defence secretary.
The cache of emails, notes and reports from inside the SAS — the like of which has never been seen before — reveal that special forces commanders were highly concerned about the killing of more than 33 people in the space of three months during night raids on their homes.
There was a particular pattern in which men were captured and then killed when the SAS sent them back into their houses at gunpoint. The Sunday Times has pieced together the disturbing evidence, which raises serious questions about whether war crimes have been covered up.
It is a trail that begins in the dead of night.
Comment: There was nothing 'rogue' about them. They were a death squad; their job was to terrorize people and keep the war going. This was 'unofficial-but-secretly-official' British (and thus NATO, American, and Western) military policy.