Police officer shot dead in town

[nonplussed]

Pretty f*cking grim this.

[discusdave]

indeed!

[skip_1]

It's all going to hell again. Hopefully not linked to the outrage in Antrim.

[Martial Arts Man]

If things escalate further, it could be a great smokescreen for bringing the boys home from Iraq/Afghanistan.....

Gotta fight the terrorists at home first!

It really is the 80s all over!

[Mr Dave]

Just the latest in a line of attacks on the police in the last year or so.

Some peace it is.

[tenohfive]

fkers.

[catmartin]

This is really saddening me

Luckily the majority of people here are disgused by this,regardless of their religion and political views.

[KANEIT]

Scum of the earth, fighting for a now imaginary and pointless cause. I hope the SAS go in covertly and execute every last one of the s.

[gingerpaul]

I'm glad to see all of our new terrorism laws are working. Sad news.

[hornetrider]

fk sake

[Magog]

KANEIT said:

Scum of the earth, fighting for a now imaginary and pointless cause. I hope the SAS go in covertly and execute every last one of the s.

Sad as these events are, and as angry as they make people, this is exactly what the terrorists perpetrating these outrages want. It would be by far the worst thing that could happen. Any percieved 'escalation' by the authorities would risk galvanising residual support for terrorists, quickly catapulting us back into the dark days of the 70's or 80's. At the moment a very few people want to see that, a massive majority don't. Lets hope it stays that way.

[Hammerwerfer]

Fight fire with fire. Gotta get down and dirty now.

[ozzerr]

Murdering terrorist scum to be honest i am suprised it has taken so long before we have had an attack from irish terror splinter groups.Imagine how the comrades of the dead soldiers feel they got packed onto a plane for afghanistan the very next day.I bet they would have prefered to stay home and sorted them ba#ta*ds out.

[anonymous-user]

very sad news.

At least these "splinter groups" wont have any decent level of funding or support behind them, so i have a lot of hope for the people in NI compared to the previous bad times they had to endure.

[Scraggles]

if they want war, why not have the soldiers find them and kill them all as enemy combatants ?

[V8A*ndy]

RIP.

[satchbot]

Back to the bad old days

[MiniMan64]

Scraggles said:

if they want war, why not have the soldiers find them and kill them all as enemy combatants ?

They tried that one before. Funnyily enough, didn't work too well.

The best response to this is universal dammnation from all sides, including Mr McGuiness and his friends. 99% of Nothern Ireland don't give a toss and would rather we don't return to the bad old days.

[ozzerr]

johnfelstead said:

very sad news.

At least these "splinter groups" wont have any decent level of funding or support behind them, so i have a lot of hope for the people in NI compared to the previous bad times they had to endure.

As you say they wont have a decent level of funding,lets hope so however they still got the weapons explosives etc,its the british intelligence and security that keeps them at bay,but what happened the other night makes me thinks we have slipped up.

[Eric Mc]

Guam said:

MiniMan64 said:

Scraggles said:

if they want war, why not have the soldiers find them and kill them all as enemy combatants ?

They tried that one before. Funnyily enough, didn't work too well.

The best response to this is universal dammnation from all sides, including Mr McGuiness and his friends. 99% of Nothern Ireland don't give a toss and would rather we don't return to the bad old days.

Actually when they did eventually try it, it worked extrememly well and lead ultimately to the peace process.


Cheers

That's highly debateable.

Undercover surveillance, a reliable team of informants and good, solid policework is what catches these guys - not summary execution on the street.