An SAS soldier who refused to fight in Iraq because he believed that the war was illegal has been threatened with legal action by government lawyers.
Ben Griffin, who left the Special Air Service in June last year after spending three months on operations in Baghdad, has been informed that the Government is considering "civil proceedings" against him after he described the war as "illegal" in a Sunday Telegraph interview.
Mr Griffin, who served in the Parachute Regiment for seven years before joining the SAS in June 2003, became the first member of the elite force to refuse to fight alongside American troops because of his moral convictions.
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