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SAS Solder C is being demonised- ABC reporting (stripped of its "narrative" ) shows a solder doing his job-ABC must confront its bias against the SAS, and accept that passive support for jihadis is a real issue, even in suburban Australia

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by Ganesh Sahathevan The ABC has reported this morning that SAS Soldier C has been found to have committed yet another "war crime". The facts according to the ABC are these. Quoting what the ABC says is a fellow solider who witnessed the shooting:  "Choppers have landed, this guy's ran. Fair enough. We were pretty intimidating," said one patrol member. "He was obviously intellectually disabled. [Soldier C's] shot this f***er through the back of the head. And I remember it so clearly because his brain literally hit the ground before he did. It was just so unnecessary." How anyone could determine by sight  that the person was "obviously intellectually disabled"  is hard to understand. In fact all that can be established is that the man ran when he sighted army helicopters coming at him. The ABC has attempted to build a story about SAS ,and in particular Soldier C's war crimes. It has done so by identifying Soldier C as the p