As far as the British response to their insurgent problem, had there been attacks and were they being fired on? I ask because I honestly don't know. Did they ignore the insurgents while they were being attacked or did the insurgents just hold the building? Whether they were armed doesn't seem to matter as much as whether or not they were using their arms.
The response to the taking of a building should of course be handled differently than the response to a calculated ambush and murder.
The pull back option seems good on the surface, but I don't believe it is without drawbacks(very few things are). Might not that approach encourage other insurgents elsewhere to believe that if they kill and fight that the coalition will leave their cities? I think that is exactly what they'd believe.
What happened to the cease fire and negotiations with the clerics?
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