IDF commander: 'If you're going to be captured, fall on a grenade'

The IDF has decided not to press charges against a Golani Brigade battalion commander who told his troops to fall on a grenade rather than be captured in Operation Cast Lead. In a tape recording of a briefing the commander of Battalion 51 gave his soldiers before entering Gaza during Operation Cast Lead the senior officer was heard saying: "Hamas's strategic weapon is to kidnap a soldier and I