Posted on 04/11/2026 8:46:35 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Two of the five men Ben Roberts-Smith is accused of murdering while serving with the Special Air Service in Afghanistan have never been identified by war crimes investigators.
Court documents seen by the Daily Mail show one of the Victoria Cross recipient's alleged victims is described only as 'Person Under Control 1', or alternatively 'Enemy Killed in Action 3'.
Roberts-Smith is accused of murdering that Afghan male with another SAS soldier dubbed 'Person 68' at Syahchow in Uruzgan Province on October 20, 2012.
Another alleged victim who is only known to authorities as 'Person Under Control 2' or 'Enemy Killed in Action 4' was killed on the same day in the same place.
Roberts-Smith is accused in a court attendance notice of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring an SAS rookie dubbed 'Person 66' to murder 'Person Under Control 2'.
In the context of Australia's war in Afghanistan, a person under control - or PUC (pronounced puck) - generally refers to a fighting-age male taken into custody after a military engagement.
Roberts-Smith, 47, was charged on Tuesday with five counts of 'war crime - murder' following a five-year joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Office of the Special Investigator (OSI).
His arrest came almost three years after the father-of-two unsuccessfully took defamation action against Nine newspapers, which published a series of reports accusing him of war crimes in 2018.
A legal source close to that civil case confirmed the AFP and the OSI still did not know Person Under Control 1 and Person Under Control 2's names.
'They have never been identified,' the source said.
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When we know who in the government is pressing this case against this warrior we will know if it is legitimate. I suspect it is not legitimate.
In addition it is easy to assess criminal activity when behind a desk back in Sydney and not on the battlefield. Put that damn pencil pusher behind the desk on the front lines and see his change in attitude.
“We shot them under Rule 3-0-3!”
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