Two British soldiers stationed in Northern Ireland were members of a unit on the eve of being posted to Afghanistan.(The Week)(Brief article)

Two British soldiers stationed in Northern Ireland were members of a unit on the eve of being posted to Afghanistan. Their kit was ready. For a last-minute party, they ordered pizzas. As they waited outside the barracks, gunmen opened fire, killing them both, and wounding four others, including those delivering the pizzas. Two days later, gunmen shot dead a policeman, a Catholic with a record of long service. The Troubles, as the Irish call them, have started up. Actually, they never quite ended. There have been several terror attacks in the recent past, none of them fatal, and only lately a very sophisticated car bomb was defused. For the ...