melmothtw - I'm not quite sure what a journalist is doing on the pages of a military aviation subset of a Professional pilots rumour network but perhaps you should be using your journalistic energy to pursue the politicians who negotiated the Good Friday agreement and allowed the free pass for the IRA murderers rather than the poor sods who the same politicians sent to do their dirty work.
When you have served your country and put your body on the line, you can criticise and demand such lofty ideals.
Until you have been shot at by people from your own country, don't pontificate about holding soldiers to a higher level of justice than those doing the killing for nothing more than personal gain and religious animosity.