The following story came out this morning in VOA News. I am glad to see that the Rules of Engagement still allows us to fire on mosques when the enemy uses them as a warfighting building and it is no longer a religous building.

NATO officials in Afghanistan say a heavily armed Taliban commander sought refuge in a mosque before starting a shootout that led to his death.  NATO says international and Afghan forces tracked down the militant commander to a compound, just outside the town of Pirdad, in Wardak Saturday. When the joint NATO-Afghan forces approached, the commander fled to a nearby mosque, refused to surrender and eventually opened fire. The officials say he was armed with grenades and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. He was wanted for buying weapons, components for explosive devices and for helping plan various attacks. NATO officials also said a U.S. soldier died Friday from a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.

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