Exactly, and that is what this is about. From accounts I've read for several months they took fire from those houses.
I'd heard that, too. In fact, I also heard from more than one source that one of the children, I think a girl, said her relative had told her to cover her ears because an IED was fixing to blow up. The adults apparently knew about it -the one that killed the Marine. Hell - you're either with us or against us and if your're against us then suffer the same fate as the terrorists.
I've read that too. I believe one of the sources I read that from was the DOD's own website, though I can't find a link now.
If our troops are not allowed to shoot back, how are we supposed to win the war? Oh yeah, we're not.