[Ispy4u]

The reply is already in post 95.

Leaders use options available to them, LTC West had many others.

[maica]

Are you aware of the facts that Lt Col West reported himself to his superior officer, and that the 'prisoner' in question was an Iraqi policeman assigned by the Coalition Forces to his position? Therefore he was a threat inside the perimeter of the troops under command of Col West, not just some local off the street.