Joel Gunter
Senior International Reporter at BBC World
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2 months ago |
bbc.com | Hannah O'Grady |Joel Gunter |Rory Tinman
The Triples - so-called because their designations were CF 333 and ATF 444 - were set up, trained, and paid by UK Special Forces and supported the SAS and SBS on operations in Afghanistan. When the country fell to the Taliban in 2021, they were judged to be in grave danger of reprisal and were entitled to apply for resettlement to the UK. The inquiry has the power to compel witnesses who are in the UK, but not non-UK nationals who are overseas.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Hannah O'Grady |Joel Gunter |Rory Tinman
UK Special Forces command rejected resettlement applications from more than 2,000 Afghan commandos who had shown credible evidence of service in units that fought alongside the SAS and SBS, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed for the first time. UK Special Forces officers appear to have rejected every application from a former Afghan commando referred to them for sponsorship, despite the Afghan units having fought with the British on life-threatening missions against the Taliban.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Joel Gunter
The victims of Sweden's worst mass shooting were seven women and three men aged between 28 and 68, police said on Friday after completing the identification process. They were killed at an adult education centre in the city of Orebro on Tuesday, about 125 miles (200km) from Stockholm, in an attack that has sent shockwaves through Sweden. All of the victims lived in Orebro, but so far authorities have declined to share their identities or any other details about them.
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2 months ago |
bbc.com | Joel Gunter
Swedish school shooting victims were seven women and three menJoel GunterBBCA picture of Salim Iskef, one of the victims of Tuesday's attack, at a memorial service for him held in Orebro this week. The victims of Sweden's worst mass shooting were seven women and three men aged between 28 and 68, police said on Friday after completing the identification process.
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2 months ago |
msn.com | Joel Gunter
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