Women and children are used all the time as shields by all the al queda and taliban groups as well as hamas and hizbollah. The leaders always keep children around to help deter air strikes on them. It keeps the coalition forces at bay and if they are attacked they get the propaganda benefit by pointing at the dead children. They have used it very effectively with Israel.
When I die I'm sure to go to heaven, cause I spent my time in hell.
You get more with a kind word and a two by four, than you do with just a kind word.