MARIUS OELSCHIG
I do not wish to make that judgement, Mr Chairman but what I can tell you is that I was asked for my advice and I confirmed that the circumstances being conveyed to me were such.  I did not pick up the radio and say shoot at will.   That is why you have a chain of command.  People from the ground report the situation to you as you have heard from the commanders on the ground and they said what must we do?  I confirmed, Mr Chairman, are you under attack, are you being fired at, and when the response was positive then I said but then you may fire because in our operational circumstances, if people fire at you, you fire back.
 We are soldiers, if people fire at you, you fire back and if it is reported to me that we are being fired at what do we do, obviously my advice was then you may fire back but again I repeat, not the entire force, not every single man with a firearm.  That is absolutely against the concept of minimum force.