[kattracks]

If they are arming civilians to fight, can they still be considered civilians?

[Centurion2000]

If they are arming civilians to fight, can they still be considered civilians?

Nope ... pick up a weapon on a battlefield and you become a legitimate target.

[chemicalman]

Hopefully, the civillians will come to their senses and use their weapons upon the taliwhackers.

[RetiredArmy]

So now the jackasses cannot complaint to the Klinton News Nitwits that we have bombed civilians! Good.

[RasterMaster]

There are no innocents in regards to the enemy! Nuke em till they glow and shoot em in the dark!

[r9etb]

If they are arming civilians to fight, can they still be considered civilians?

Better question: if they are arming civilians to fight, will those civilians still be carrying their weapons after the Taliban are no longer threatening to kill their families?

I'm thinking here of the crack front-line troops fielded by Iraq during the gulf war. They basically just grabbed guys off the street and shipped them to the front. And we've all seen the picture of the guy who surrendered to the UAV.

[Common Tator]

The leadership and our guests (bin Laden and his associates) are mobile and safe, and Americans can't find them," declared Abdul Hanan Himat, a Taliban spokesman.

The very last thing we want to do is kill or capture bin laden. The instant he is taken our media would start screaming we are killing civilians in a Bush vendetta. They would try to turn the American people into a force to demand our withdrawl. If bin laden came in to surrender, we would kick his a$$ out not arrest him. We have to take out the terrorist infrastructure and if we get bin Laden now we will not likely get to do that.

Ten years from now the media would be screaming why didn't Dubya take them out when he had the chance. The fact is most Amercians can't remember 10 years. But they are aware of bin Laden. Until we have destroyed the terrorist network, bin Laden is a safe as Tom Daschle with the post office on strike.

[jlogajan]

Arming civilians is always a good sign.

[Dog Gone]

If they are arming civilians, then they are incredibly desperate. Even the meatheads in the Taliban have to know that a civilian isn't likely to put up much effective resistance.

[Lowell]

150 men? Shi&&& we'll just send over some of our West Side Crips and throw in a few Latin Kings. They should cut them up real nice in about an hour. I think they will even supply their own guns!

[He Rides A White Horse]

If they are arming civilians to fight, can they still be considered civilians?

No, they become combatants.

[classygreeneyedblonde]

Their desperate

[xm177e2]

Taliban Reportedly Arming Civilians

Now even the liberals have to join us in supporting airstrikes =)

[JeepInMazar]

according to Afghans phoning in from the war zone near Kandahar,

Afghans with phones in Kandahar are not ordinary, average Afghans. Propaganda alert.