1. It is similarly difficult to believe that Capt Kyle would not remember Capt Rainville reporting to Col Labbé and LCol Mathieu in his afteraction debriefing that the two Somalis shot were saboteurs, yet Capt Kyle testified that he remembers Capt Rainville saying they were looters.144 He also did not indicate in his Significant Incident Report that the Somalis ever breached the wire, but rather that they were trying to break into the Canadian compound.145 The first instance of the word sabotage appearing in print with reference to the night of March 4th was on March 5th, in LCol Mathieu's response to a series of questions from NDHQ requesting information about the shootings.

Le cplc Countway a affirmé qu'il se trouvait à une distance d'environ 50 mètres du Détachement 64A. Il estimait que la distance entre les deux épingles de repère correspondait à environ 30 mètres (Transcriptions, vol.