daswig

I realize you're not a lawyer, so you're probably not aware of this. POW protections under the Geneva Conventions don't apply to enemy combatants of the type we're encountering in Fallujah. They don't have a proper command structure, they don't have identifying insignia, et cetera. There's a whole list of qualifications that a person must meet to get POW status, and these people ain't doing it. As such, they don't get the protections we normally think POWs would get. In your other "war crime", they are indeed allowing people that they KNOW are civilians (women and children) to leave. It's the people that they think are insurgents (men in that certain militarily-useful age group) that they're not allowing to leave.