No Foolin', Actual Clowns.
Cool, that one is actually repeatable

As Sun Tzu said, never under-estimate your enemy. Or was that Lincoln, I forget.
Sure as hell wasn't Custer.

Fortunately these peckerheads still think in Napoleonic terms.
That big formation of black wearing, black guys looks exactly like a 2 meter by 50 meter bullseye.
That's why they don't use big impressive looking formations any more.

You realize that the lack of military participation means no Geneva convention considerations.
It's easy to make the sorts of gasses they used in WW I, sulphuric acid and Trichloroethane in a glass bottle is a gas grenade.
I'm sure people with more chemistry could come up with even more creative stuff.
It's guerilla warfare where the only question is "Will this hurt the enemy ?"
Anything done as retaliation is then used for propaganda.