Garpal Gumnut
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The law is an ass and often leads to unintended consequences. I would never judge any soldier who is sent to fight in the shitholes of this world like Afghanistan who is then open to be hounded by the press and the law and by people with no experience of war when he comes home. Often for the rest of his life. .
From the Times of London today. An ISIS chap got taken out by a drone because capturing him for interrogation would have been illegal.
An RAF Reaper drone fired two hellfire missiles at an Islamic State biological weapons engineer because human rights laws prevented special forces troops from detaining him, The Times understands.
The incident came to light as former members of the SAS criticised Britain’s decades-old investigations into the actions of elite soldiers and said that they were not “mad dog” assassins.
The British government became aware of the engineer from Yemen, who was based in a village in northern Syria, in December 2022. It was thought that his phone and computer might contain the names of others in his network, or plans for an Isis attack. However, there were concerns that if troops seized the devices they would not be able to capture and detain the man, according to The Spectator magazine. A source confirmed the incident to The Times.
It was argued that, under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), the man would have had to be let go even if he surrendered. This is because it would have been deemed illegal to hand over a terrorist suspect to Syria because of the risk of torture, and illegal to fly him to Britain because there was no extradition treaty. As a result, an RAF drone was apparently sent to kill him.
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From the Times of London today. An ISIS chap got taken out by a drone because capturing him for interrogation would have been illegal.
An RAF Reaper drone fired two hellfire missiles at an Islamic State biological weapons engineer because human rights laws prevented special forces troops from detaining him, The Times understands.
The incident came to light as former members of the SAS criticised Britain’s decades-old investigations into the actions of elite soldiers and said that they were not “mad dog” assassins.
The British government became aware of the engineer from Yemen, who was based in a village in northern Syria, in December 2022. It was thought that his phone and computer might contain the names of others in his network, or plans for an Isis attack. However, there were concerns that if troops seized the devices they would not be able to capture and detain the man, according to The Spectator magazine. A source confirmed the incident to The Times.
It was argued that, under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), the man would have had to be let go even if he surrendered. This is because it would have been deemed illegal to hand over a terrorist suspect to Syria because of the risk of torture, and illegal to fly him to Britain because there was no extradition treaty. As a result, an RAF drone was apparently sent to kill him.
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