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Old 12-01-2006, 00:05 AM   #42 (permalink)
Shek
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Non-combatants that are killed during a military operation is not a crime unless the non-combatants are deliberately targeted or if excessive force was used in targeting a military target that resulted in non-combatant deaths due to excess force.

Thus, unless you can demonstrate that all Lebanese deaths were due to deliberately targeting non-combatants, or that excessive force was used in the targeting of a military target, then you cannot claim all Lebanese casualties to be crimes/murder.
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