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

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 person who "executed"  a person the ABC claims is a defenceless man.However, as demonstrated in the story  below, even the ABC's reporting shows that  the man could not be assumed to have been unarmed; in fact battlefield evidence seems to suggest that he was carrying or had been involved in assembling a bomb (see story below).
The ABC seems intent on demonising Soldier C, who seems to have done what he was trained for. It is by extension demonising the SAS, and SAS soldiers who are cooperating with the ABC should be under no illusion of that fact.
Meanwhile the ABC does not seem to be interested in the matter of passive support for jihadis. It is a problem even  here , in suburban Australia . In any conflict zone it is a constant danger that must be defended against. As even the International Crisis Group discovered, Al-Shabab remains resilient because of active and passive support from the very women it denigrates. 
The ABC should stick to reporting, not promoting its latest "narrative".


TO BE READ WITH 


The so-called SAS execution of an "unarmed man": ABC admits that SAS were looking for a bomb maker and that the Army dog seems to have identified him as a bomb maker with a bomb, but insists it was an execution of an unarmed man



March 16, 2020





by Ganesh Sahathevan


Video still of a man in the tall wheat fighting off a dog.PHOTO: The man tries to fight off the dog as Soldier C arrives. (Supplied)


In ABC Four Corners own words: 

It is a bright day in May 2012, and 3 Squadron SAS is looking for an insurgent bombmaker.
The handler, with his dog, follows the patrol scout, who Four Corners has called Soldier C, through a field towards a mud compound.
The helicopters are guiding them to a person who has been spotted in a wheat field ahead.
Amongst the wheat, the dog handler and Soldier C come across a bearded man in his 20s being mauled by the dog, called Quake.
"Quake, leave!" yells the dog handler.
As the dog lets go, Soldier C trains his M4 assault rifle on the man from a range of between 1 and 2 metres.
After more than 20 seconds the soldier turns to the dog handler.
"You want me to drop this c***?"
"I don't know mate. Hit ***** up," replies the dog handler, referring to the patrol commander, who has taken up a position nearby.
The soldier turns to the commander.
"You want me to drop this c***?"
The soldier asks the commander a second time: "You want me to drop this c***?"
The patrol commander's response is inaudible on the video.
Soldier C fires the first shot into the Afghan man on the ground.
As the dog streaks towards the prone man, and the handler calls for him to come back, the soldier pumps two more bullets into the victim.
The Afghan man is dead.
Fewer than three minutes has elapsed between the SAS landing their chopper, and the killing in the wheat field.

In other words, a job well done. Army dog Quake had repeatedly identified the threat and defensive measures were taken. 
The ABC has reported that the Afghan was unarmed but, as reported, this man was a bomb maker, who could have had a bomb on him. 
END 

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