Let me help you. The correct answers to all of the above is no. Making a parallel between the inhabitants of Mount Carmel and the Taliban is just a bit... out of there.
I'm not saying that you are a sick individual and I hope you're not. But your writings appear to suggest that.
They used the children as human sheilds, they could have released the children, but he chose he would rather be a coward and use them as sheilds.
He was a criminal, no better than any other cop killer, I shead no tears for him