Overview
- N1466, a senior UK special forces officer, told the inquiry he warned leadership in February 2011 about suspicious patterns and says two directors chose a ‘fake’ tactics review instead of referring potential crimes to military police.
- He cites statistical anomalies and material from raid reports and photos — high kill-to-weapon ratios, close-range headshots, detainees allegedly taken back to sites and executed, and weapons seemingly staged on bodies.
- Illustrative cases in the summaries include a 2012 Nimruz raid in which two parents were killed and their toddlers were shot in bed, and a separate incident where women and children were killed under a mosquito net during clearing fire.
- N1466 says killings continued into 2013, he reported concerns to the Royal Military Police in 2015, and earlier probes — Operation Northmoor and Operation Cestro — produced no prosecutions as the Ministry of Defence urges waiting for the inquiry’s findings.
- Some SAS personnel are reportedly refusing to give evidence over self‑incrimination fears, with legal sources quoted saying a large share of those called have declined to participate.