'before last' it is now.

Carol,

when you did look up the site about human shields you could easily have also found a condemnation of the use of a 11(?) year old boy as a convenient and low danger (though not for him) means of transport for explosives recently. If that is not a variant of the human shields tactic I don't know what that is.

I have seldom objections to your links as such, but why do I get the impression that you only select those stories that have a certain slant?

Wolfgang