What do you suppose "...a substantial stockpile of small-arms ammunition" was doing in this village?
If you take the trouble to read the full article in the LA Times - or for that matter other state-allowed news bits - you would find it out that the arms and munitions were left behind the retreating Taliban. They just put it in some unfinished building before they disappeared.
At any account... would that justify sloughtering a complete vilage ?
I also wonder how the 'freerepers' thinking about the Serbs harsh cracking down on the KLA terrorists in the new light of the 'War on terrorism'...