Sir Ben Wallace Denies He ‘Lacked Curiosity’ Over SAS Afghanistan Allegations

Published on September 24, 2024

Former Defence Secretary Sir Ben Wallace has rejected claims by ex-veterans’ minister Johnny Mercer that he “lacked curiosity” when responding to allegations of a cover-up over extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan. Mercer, who like Wallace is a former officer in the British Army, wrote to the former defence secretary in August 2020 shortly after emails in which senior officers expressed serious concerns about the killings of 33 Afghans in 11 nights in 2011 were published by The Sunday Times. The former veterans’ minister told the Afghanistan Inquiry in March he was “angry” with Wallace, as well as with the director of special forces and the chief of general staff, because they had “not done their job that was incumbent upon them with their rank and privileges” in regards to the allegations....

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