[Publius6961]

Instructions contained directions for troops to change to civilian clothing and then approach coalition forces with their supplied WMD.

I wonder if they were told that by all international conventions this made them subject to immediate execution?
Nobody can be that dumb.

[Sofa King]

"I wonder if they were told that by all international conventions this made them subject to immediate execution?"

Probably not, but they already knew that not doing it had such implications.