@Jennifer1984 Said 
The balance of peace in Northern Ireland has been quite fragile for some time, and the reason it has held this long has been because the people have worked with the police in keeping a lid on dissident activity.
The key here, is that stability and prevention of terrorism has been a police matter.
About ten days ago, it became known that the British Government had decided to send intelligence operatives, drawn from the special forces, back into Northern Ireland to carry out undercover operations on suspect organisations. It is very likely that these shootings are a response to that.
When you send soldiers into Northern Ireland, it inflames the situation. To the dissidents, it can appear that matters are being escalated from a matter of policing, to a military operation, hence a paramilitary response.
Since the shootings, the decision to send in special forces personnnel has been quietly allowed to die down and for all we know, may have been dropped altogether.
The solution now, to this matter is to return control of anti-terrorist operations to the Police Service for Northern Ireland and let them get on with it. They're doing a pretty good job.
Jennifer
i,m afraid jennifer some of the points you have made are not quite accurate, the reconisence teams requested by the police are already here, and have been for some time, plus the killings would have been planned long in advance of any knowledge the terrorists had of special support units being here . you are right about the fact that it hasnt been mentioned much since that it because people now relise it a unfortunate necessity in the current climate, but hopefully this wont last and i for one dont think it will the psni have alredy made arrests over the constables shamefull murder.
Mar 11, 2009 @ 08:37:58
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