‘A Gurkha soldier has been flown back to the UK after hacking the head off a dead Taliban commander with his ceremonial knife to prove the dead man’s identity.
The private, from 1st Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles, was involved in a fierce firefight with insurgents in the Babaji area of central Helmand Province when the incident took place earlier this month.
His unit had been told that they were seeking a ‘high value target,’ a Taliban commander, and that they must prove they had killed the right man.
………..It comes just days after a rogue Afghan soldier murdered three British troops from the same Gurkha regiment.’
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Much breast-beating from the brass and the usual suspects about “showing respect” for dead islamists, because that’s important in their “culture”. You want to see how important?
