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Ben Roberts-Smith forced to explain a day that defines the SAS

Aaron Patrick

In the Special Air Service Regiment, Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith killed so many people that, nine years later, he couldn’t recall if it was he who shot one of two men who died in the Afghan village of Darwan at the hands of his patrol.

Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney on Friday. Rhett Wyman

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Aaron Patrick was a senior correspondent at The Australian Financial Review.

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