The murder of Colonel Kazakov and sixteen other soldiers in Kosovo only reinforced what Zhurbenko already knew-Russia needed to get out of Kosovo.

The military is still trying to determine whether the rape and killings in March have any connection to the torture and murder of three soldiers from the same platoon in June.

But that would be messy, and the murder of two British soldiers would quickly cause an uproar he did not need, as soon as the landing craft returned, probably the next day.

Prominent republican Marian Price is charged on 22 July in connection with the murders of two soldiers in Antrim in March 2009.

In the climax, India wins the war and Mahadevan kills Chengiz and avenges the brutal murder of many Indian soldiers.

Now they respond to the murder of two Israeli soldiers by a Palestinian mob in Ramallah with helicopter gunships (front page, Oct. 13).

Sheikh Yasseen was charged with 15 offences, including involvement in the murder of two Israeli soldiers in May 1989.

Then, in the aftermath of the murder of 10 Belgian soldiers, the Belgian backbone of the multinational mission was yanked out.

One of them read: Here stood Kandanos, destroyed in retribution for the murder of 25 German soldiers, never to be rebuilt again.

Israeli worries were hardly dissipated last week by the murders of two soldiers hitchhiking in Gaza and a settler in the West Bank.