MR VISSER
Would it be unfair to have expected - and I'm now arguing Commissioner Lax's case, would it have been unfair to have expected for the Task Force to have been deployed on all exit routes away from that house?  And why didn't the Task Force go and set up roadblocks, at least on the main avenues away from that house?  Those are questions which ought to have been dealt with in cross-examination but they weren't.  What you heard from the three applicants was that they were members of the Security Branch, as well as Taylor of course, it wasn't their operation.  They were called out to assist.  They were there in a capacity to assist.  It was not their operation.  One would imagine that Steyn could have said to van Sittert and/or Breytenbach:  "But Boys, don't you have a better plan?"  According to him he didn't, but where does it take us Chairperson?  The fact of the matter is that the intention of the three applicants before you was that these people were going to be arrested and if you look at their conduct thereafter, it is only in line with the intention of arresting.
	First of all, my learned friend Mr Webster suggested that there was never any intention just to arrest them, but the intention was to kill them.  Now taking that at face value, assuming that to be the case, would Botha and Steyn really have chosen the N2 freeway to kill these victims in heavy traffic where there are members of the public present who could be hurt in a shooting and which would create further complications?  No, Chairperson, the answer is no.  They would have followed that car up to a point where it was relatively quiet, where they would have executed it, that plan, in our submission.  That's on the probabilities, but that's clear probabilities.  What you have ...(intervention)