MPs call for special forces but warn of legal constraints on their activitiesFormer SAS soldiers talk about their past “kill list” in IraqAttention seems to shift abruptly in Britain’s national security circles, from Vladimir Putin’s designs on Ukraine to the extreme jihadists committing atrocities in Syria and Iraq.As pictures of Angela Merkel and François Hollande meeting Putin in the Kremlin last week flashed around the world’s TV screens, former British general Sir Richard Shirreff warned that the crisis in Ukraine could lead to “total war” and that David Cameron risked becoming a “foreign policy irrelevance”. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
