An ISIS fighter was blown up by an RAF drone because European human rights laws prevented troops from capturing him, a report claims.
A Reaper drone is said to have fired two Hellfire missiles at an ISIS bioweapons engineer in a northern Syrian village in December 2022.
The man’s phone and computer were thought to contain plans for a possible ISIS attack or names of other people on his network, but if troops seized his devices, they would have had to let the ISIS fighter go even if he had been surrendered.he Viewer information.
Under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), it is illegal to hand over terror suspects to Syria, due to the risk of torture, and it is also illegal to take them to Britain because there is no extradition treaty.
Therefore, it was reported that it was decided to send the RAF drone to kill the Yemeni man.
Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, said SAS soldiers were forced to kill terrorists rather than capture them as “the European Court will free them”.
Former Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said he had ordered many attacks like this, but would have preferred a trial in the UK “rather than making martyrs of those who intend to do us harm”.
This comes as SAS members come under scrutiny following an investigation into allegations they killed innocent people in Afghanistan and planted weapons on them during the war.
A Reaper drone (pictured) reportedly fired two Hellfire missiles at an ISIS bioweapons engineer in a northern Syrian village in December 2022.
Robert Jenrick (pictured), the shadow secretary of state for justice, said SAS soldiers were forced to kill terrorists rather than capture them as “the European Court will free them”.
Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, said SAS soldiers were forced to kill the terrorists rather than capture them as the “European Court will release them” (file image of special forces soldiers during a military maneuver)
Investigations such as this have been criticized by former SAS commander Colonel Richard Williams as not being “mad dog” killers.
‘The Special Forces are not above the law. Full stop,” he told the Spectator, but said they needed to have “the freedom to execute important actions on behalf of the state.”
Investigations date back to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, with a former soldier telling the Spectator he had attempted suicide after being left in legal “limbo” for two decades after his squad killed four IRA members in East Tyrone . ‘brigade’ in 1992.
Soldier M, who was part of the SAS for 34 years, said he had to give evidence about that night several times, including at an inquiry called under Article 2 of the ECHR, which protects “everyone’s right to life.” .
“We are being made scapegoats (…) and subject to the whims of successive governments (…) when this latest investigation began, I found myself falling into a downward spiral,” said Private M.
Another former SAS member, George Simm, said the atmosphere at the SAS base in Hereford was “dark”.
The former regimental sergeant major added that while soldiers typically serve in the SAS for ten to fifteen years, “the rest of their life they are pursued by lawyers” for actions soldiers took while in the forces.