Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by different groups.A phone call to a Dublin newspaper said the soldiers had been killed by the Real IRA, notorious for the Omagh bombing in 1998.

• 先后有不同的团体声称对袭击事件负责：一个打到都柏林报纸的电话声称，两个士兵是被“真正北爱尔兰共和军”（此团体因1998年奥马爆炸案而臭名昭著）杀死的；