Drop charges against Soldier 'F'

former British soldier will stand trial for firing on civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland in 1972, an event that came to be known as Bloody Sunday, prosecutors said. But 16 other ex-paratroopers and and two former members of the Official IRA will face no action.

The army veteran, known as Soldier F, has been charged with the murder of demonstrators James Wray and William McKinney and the attempted murders of four other men, the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland said Thursday.

Charging a soldier for doing the duty he was sent into the field to do, in a travesty of justice in the extreme. Soldier 'F' must be exonerated and those politicians who sent troops to Ireland should themseves be charged even if that action is done posthumously