The following article is by an ex-serviceman who served in Afghanistan.
They’re making a list, they’re checking it twice – and Number 10 will know whether you’ve been naughty or nice. And if you’ve been very naughty, you’d better watch out for a metallic glint in the sky. Britain doesn’t have anything called a ‘kill list’, but it does have something called ‘JPEL’ – whose existence the government will neither confirm nor deny.
The ‘Joint Priority Effects List’ is not new, nor is the very use of such a list. As with Special Forces operations, the UK government – with good reason – will consistently refuse to comment on its existence. Intelligence work is often as much about source protection as it is about keeping information ‘need to know’.
During active operations in Afghanistan the JPEL included child rapists, bombers and the very worst of humanity.
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