What then?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/09/real- ira-murders-massereene-soldiers

What if these killers had been shot at and killed or wounded by the soldiers, what then?

Would their actions then have had Brown's full support?

Will the rest of the Regiment still be going to Afghanistan?

[paraffin]

Slightly confused. In what circumstances would the soldiers have shot the terrorists?

Are you creating a hypothetical situation whereby the squaddies may have shot the scumbags, or are you asking what would Brown's reaction have been had the scumbags been shot during Saturday's incident?

Incidentally, the rest of the Engineers have been deployed to Afghanistan. They went yesterday, as would have of course both murdered squaddies had the incident not happened.

[anotheoldgit]

Well yes, to both.

A purely hypothetical situation, say the soldiers had been on barrack guard with loaded weapons, and the scum bags had started shooting first and the soldiers returned the fire and killed one or more of these creatures.

What would have been Brown's reaction then?

[paraffin]

Thanks for that AOG. In that case, you'd like to think that Brown would still have condemned the terrorists and would have praised the squaddies for having thwarted a terrorist attack.

I also believe, however, that he would have "regretted" any loss of life!!

[obNOXious]

Is there even a point to this question though???

[123everton]

Apparently they could'nt return fire as they did'nt have a clean shot.

[anotheoldgit]

paraffin

What I was trying to compare it with (but no one clicked on to it) was the soldier who was sentenced to life for murder, because he shot and killed a person who had crashed through an army check point.

I can't seem to find a link about this, but I seem to think it happened in Gibraltar.

This link makes for terrifying reading we all hope that it will never get back to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Pro visional_IRA_actions

[123everton]

I think the event you were referring to was in Ulster and the car contained teenaged joyriders.
You may be confusing this with the "Murder On The Rock" were 3 I.R.A activists were killed by the S.A.S whilst they were about to explode bombs in Gibraltar