"So... I ask again... how DO we react to information the a major, known terrorist in in a house where there 'may' be non-combatants?"

and I ask...
How do we react to information that a home with civilians 'may' be located next door to a house where there may be terrorist foot soldiers?

Actually that is a rhetorical question as I think we all know the answer

Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said missile strikes could be justified only when it was impossible to capture insurgents alive instead and ONLY if they were carried out by regular U.S. armed forces operating with proper oversight and respect for the rules of war.

"Intelligence agencies, which by definition are determined to remain unaccountable except to their own paymasters, have no place in running programs that kill people in other countries.

The world does not know when and where the CIA is authorized to kill, its criteria for choosing targets, whether they are lawful killings, and how it follows up when civilians are illegally killed" he said


Under President Barack Obama, the CIA has stepped up its drone strikes in the tribal zone of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, targeting not only high-level al Qaeda and Taliban targets but largely unknown foot soldiers as the CIA has widened the "target set" for drone strikes in Pakistan, Reuters reported last month.