>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/bin.laden.legal/index.html?hpt=T1
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>>>>I support the administrationin standing up on this one. ( And who is this AG with a spine pretending to be Eric Holder? <s> I applaud whatever revelation he has had. )
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>>>>And if the "international legal community" is in any way hacked off about the fate of UBL, they are going to be apoplectic when ISI members and others start dying off in defiance of the actuarial tables and senior Pakistani officials start resigning to spend more time with their families.
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>>>>These are the same "international law" experts that seemed to have trouble figuring out how to deal with Balkan monsters, Somali warlords, Rwandan genocide or cannibal Africa emperors. Not to mention people who strap bombs on children and send them into mosques.
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>>>>I think this is all part of the expected fallout. And irrelevant.
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>>>A little extra perpective
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>>>Assassination of Abu Jihad - Tunis, April 1988
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>>>Khalil al-Wazir, or Abu Jihad, a key ally of Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat, planned numerous attacks on Israeli civilians, but the final straw was the 1988 hijacking of a bus en route to Israel's secret nuclear-weapons installation at Dimona in the Negev desert. A month later, 30 Israeli commandos landed on a Tunisian beach before linking up with Mossad agents already in the country. One commando team shot and killed Abu Jihad's driver outside his villa while another broke down the door and fired 70 bullets at Abu Jihad. The operation, allegedly ordered by Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin and co-ordinated by future prime minister Ehud Barak, was condemned by the US as an act of political assassination.
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>>And boy I bet we really meant it <s>.
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>>I think we said the same things when the Kidon took out the murderers from the Munich Olympics. I believe the Brits did as well. We were horrified. Absolutely horrified.
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>>I look forward to being similarly horrified in the future when despicable violations of national sovereignty and human rights lead to the untimely death of Zawahri and others on the list.
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>>I would particularly like to be appalled by violations of the sovereignty of Lebanon and Syria by SealTeam6. The Bekaa is a lot easier to get into than Pakistan.
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>Remember they got lucky. Anything like that is fraught with possible problems and the more often you do it the more likely you are to end tits up at some point.

Absolutely. That is why it should be done so sparingly and only when the result is worth the candle.

But that should be the determining factor - not the opinion of some international law professor writing letters to The Guardian <s> or a UN commission withe Libya and Iran as members. My main concern is the risk to the extraordinary people who risk their lives to accomplish these things.