WELLINGTON: Pressure mounted on the New Zealand government Friday to call an inquiry into a botched special forces raid in Afghanistan that reportedly left six civilians dead, including a three-year-old child.
A book published this week alleges the SAS staged the 2010 raid as a “revenge attack” after a New Zealand soldier was killed, but faulty intelligence meant they targeted villagers rather than insurgents.
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