"MARJAH, Afghanistan – Taliban fighters holding out in Marjah are increasingly using civilians as human shields, firing from compounds where U.S. and Afghan forces can clearly see women and children on rooftops or in windows, Afghan and U.S. troops said Wednesday.
...Brig. Gen. Mohiudin Ghori, the brigade commander of Afghan troops in Marjah, said in some cases women and children may have been ordered to stand on a roof or in a window of buildings where Taliban fighters are shooting.
Ghori said troops have to decide between firing on insurgents among civilians, or advance much more slowly to keep women and children out of the crossfire.
"They are trying to get us to fire on them and kill the civilians," Ghori said."
Under the recognized rules of war, we are allowed to defend ourselves by returning fire no matter what tactics the enemy tries to use. In past wars we've bombed cities to destroy the war materiel factories located there. Our present "rules of engagement" our being used against us.
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