The Geneva Convention provides for a precise definition of "soldier" - these guys don't fit it.
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So we all agree with how I defined them then... Which was as terrorists

What I don't understand is why you are both so eager to point out I was right in this point?

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Yeah, they're practically one and the same.
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I will take your sarcasm as disagreement. So I suppose you would say the worst soldiers in the Nazi regime and under Imperial Japan were far more morally acceptable than a terrorist like Nelson Mandela?

If you do not agree surely your sarcasm was misplaced in the first place?

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OK - so this one was a soldier, next they'll be attacking Cadets (children in military uniform) like the ProVo's did. A 15 year old boy lost a hand and an eye about ten year ago when he turned on a booby trapped torch left outside his Cadet Hut - that literally could have been me.
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So the reason terrorists attacking soldiers is unacceptable is because there is an inevitable slipperly slope that will follow of attacking children playing dress up?

Surely there is an equal risk of our own soldiers falling down a similar slipperly slope which ends in them attacking children playing dress up?

For years I remember the arguments raging about terrorists and one of the main problems people had was their targeting of innocent civilians. I was just curios as to whether people as the arguments went prefer the terrorists to target the military rather than civilians... that is after all what gave us our morale edge.

These two men, I will call them terrorists again to soothe some of our angrier board members, targeted a soldier and left the civilians in the area well alone, it was a (from what I can tell) deliberate attack on a soldier which resulted in no civilian casualties. Isn't this what everyone has been asking for from the terrorists?