] LEGITIMATE TARGETS
]
] But others are apparently being used as fighters or more
] often as scouts and weapons collectors. U.S. officers and
] soldiers say that turns them into legitimate targets.
]
] "I think they're cowards," Boggs said of the parents or
] Fedayeen paramilitaries who send out children to the
] battlefield.
]
] "I think they thought we wouldn't shoot kids. But we
] showed them we don't care. We are going to do what we
] have to do to stay alive and keep ourselves safe."
]
] The boy he killed was with another child of around the
] same age when they reached for the RPG and came under
] fire. Boggs thinks the second boy was also hit but other
] soldiers think he escaped and that he dragged his
] friend's dead body away.

US troops face children, and hard calls, in battle