At the risk of being chauvimistic, if this situation had happened in Britain, the outcome would have been totally different.

The SAS would never have gassed terrorists and hostages en masse. The operation would have been conducted with the intent to save as many innocent lives as possible, with loss of life among the rescuing troops being foreseen and accepted as inevitable.

The rescuing of the innocent should have been the top priority, not the safety of the rescuers.

Furthermore, shooting the terrorists while they were unconscious was totally unjustifible, even although they were Islamic extremists.

Murray