Politics · 10 hours ago
Ex-SAS Commander Denies Army Had IRA Shoot-to-Kill Policy
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George Simm, a former SAS commander who served in Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 80s, insists his unit never set out to kill IRA members rather than arrest them. Speaking publicly after nearly 50 years, the 72-year-old described the 1988 Drumnakilly ambush near Omagh, where three IRA men died, and accused ministers of abandoning veterans through Labour's Troubles legacy bill, now going through Westminster.
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