also, is this taken during the actual invasion or closer to now (ie when government council is in place)?

Little things like that make all the difference, if it was after the war they are no longer combatants of an enemy country, not subject to Geneva, etc.


My other concern about striking a convoy and gunning down survivors (rather than, say, taking prisoners) is: are we always sure they're enemy?
The last vid I saw like that was on the History Channel, and it was an Apache accidentally killing an M-113 and then murdering its American crew with the gun.