NATO issues directive restricting night raids

American troops knocked on the door and broke it down before the Afghan family could find the key to let them in.

What troubled 77-year-old Mohammad Nabi most about the intrusion in the southern town of Marjah? There was no time to take women in the home to another place.

"If they ask us to take our women and daughters in another place and then they do the search, we have no problems," the retired school teacher told an Associated Press reporter. "We will cooperate with them. But they just enter the house and start searching and they don't care who is there."

A new directive, confirmed Wednesday by U.S. Gen. Stanley …