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During the evening of 26 January, McNab's group of five commandeered a taxi by having Consiglio pretend to be wounded in McNab's arms whilst lying on the side of a road.

When the car approached, Pring, Lane, and Coburn came up from behind cover and surrounded the vehicle.

According to McNab's account, the group evicted all occupants from the taxi and drove until they reached a check point, where Lane shot and killed one soldier, while the others in the group killed two more.

According to Ryan's second-hand account ( presumably taken from the Regimental debriefing ), the group were driven to the checkpoint by one of the Iraqi occupants of the taxi.

They exited the vehicle with plans to rendezvous on the other side of the checkpoint, but the driver alerted the Police, and the group were forced to continue on foot.

Asher's investigation supported Ryan's version of events with no reported armed contact and no reported Iraqi casualties.