I'm almost speechless, too, Shakey...
Rob- you're absolutely right. This guy was in a mosque which was used as a bunker by the animals... a "Non-target" by all conventional standards of war.... but when you have to burn down the chickenhouse because of the coyotes inside, you do what you have to do.
More than one brave American has be recently killed with IEDs under "the innocent".
If the "victim" had been truly innocent, he'd likely have been elsewhere, as in departed the AO.
Sorry 'bout that.