Reply #70: some more about war crimes

[Ultima]

Actually, combatants who do not wear uniforms or other clear identification of their combat status are not protected under the Geneva convention (this applies to pretty much all of the Iraqi resistance) and they can be summarily executed without a trial. In addition, storing war materiel in schools, hospitals, or places of worship is also considered to be a war crime (and so is shooting out of such building, of course), and the destruction or attack of those places to remove said materiel/enemies is not a war crime.

As someone else put it, "if we do either of those things , guess who will be the target of raving denunciation by such groups as Human Rights Watch ?"