What are scouts? There are places we knew no one was supposed to be – so if you saw anyone there, even if he’s unarmed, he’s considered a scout. Maybe he has a sniper rifle concealed behind him, maybe he’s a sniper – but we would call such a person a scout because no weapon could be seen. As far as we’re concerned, such a person is a terrorist, for all intents and purposes. He could be directing forces, directing mortars, gathering information on where we sleep.In order to incriminate him, do you need something in particular – or is his very presence incriminating? His very presence in a combat zone. If you see someone walking in the street and he’s just wandering around in the street but you can tell there’s something unusual going on – you don’t just go ahead and shoot him, especially if he doesn’t have a weapon on him, doesn’t have a big coat on. That’s what we were told. Say you see someone in the window of a house, in a place with a good vantage point, looking around – that’s a scout. From our perspective he’s a target, by all means. He’s inside a combat zone, it’s pretty clearly a combat zone, it’s being bombed, and [the Palestinians living there] were warned two days beforehand to leave. So he’s an enemy, he should have known better. Do you want to risk your life when he has a sniper rifle behind him as he’s looking around? No, I won’t take that chance. If I see a man in a window in a place he’s not supposed to be – he’s incriminated. Then you direct fire at him? Yes. If it was the house next to mine I would immediately respond. The problem is that my effective range isn’t so far when I’m using an M16 and its sights – so we directed other forces. If I were to see something like that – he’d get a bullet straight away. Without hesitating. I say this very clearly. I would not risk my life for any person like that, who’s in a place that is a known combat zone. Say you see a pregnant woman – and keep in mind even a pregnant woman could blow herself up on you – you are still a human being – you don’t just throw a grenade at her. There is logic. But if you see a man, and it’s clear that he’s between 20 and 40 years old – then you don’t hesitate.