and a young family paid the price “ Unknown to the British public at that time, SAS operatives were already suspected at the highest levels of UK Special Forces of illegally killing Afghan men who had surrendered and been detained, and later covering up the killings with fabricated reports.” " Instead of getting to the bottom of what happened and correcting any criminal behaviour, SIRs [Serious Incident Reviews] became a way of cleansing an incident of any wrongdoing," a former senior Royal Military Police officer said. "Some senior officers were using SIRs as a tool to prevent scrutiny. It seemed they were deciding on non-referral and then writing the SIR to justify the decision." Related Australian elite troops killed Afghan civilians [for practice] Hunting Russians, Giving Pass to Americans The bombing killed more than 160 civilians