Fatwa on those who kill Civilians

AhmadJoyia wrote: Please read the whole surah "Att-Toba" with complete context under which this verse must be understood and not in isolation. Thanks

All Muslims should read Tafsir Ibn-Kathir concerning At-Tauba, as it has been cited out of context both by uneducated Muslims to justify patently unIslamic practices and by non-Muslims determined to disparage Islam.

http://tafsir.com/default.asp?sid=9&tid=20702

Assalamo Alaikum

Of course the punishment of fire is reserved for Allah Tallah.

My question is one not of theory, but of practical tactics.  How should a Muslim country fight a war and with what type of weapons are they allowed to use Islamically? Swords and rifles, of course, what about bombs/missles thrown from airplanes or what about tanks that throw their bombs great distances? Nuclear bomb? Land mines?

Civilians dont venture onto the battlefield, the battlefield is where they live, the aspects of war have changed from 1400 years ago, it is entire cities, beachfronts and the other strategic points.

I know and I agree, I just dont like the hyprocrisy of the west, when they throw atomic bombs on people and have ten of thousands more nuclear warheads waiting to be used, and deny those to Muslim nations, and speak of themselves as so highly that they only target combatants.

There is an underlying question of using any type of bomb.  That is a catapulted bomb does not know where it may land and who it may kill.  It may and does kill women and children.  So is that allowed Islamically or not?? Of course the enemy uses it, and justifies that they only target combatants, so is that the permission slip to use.  When you know the results do not match the intention.  You can only know who you are killing when in hand to hand combat with swords .  So it that the only weapon Muslims may use when its enemy has F-160 fighter jets and stealth weapons.  Of couse there is no declared war, but what to do when one is?