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Was Osama Bin Laden’s Assassination Lawful?

Was Osama Bin Laden’s Assassination Lawful?. U.S. law does not provide legal authority for assassination as military action. The US violated Pakistani sovereignty, and thus international law Execution without trial and due process violates American legal norms.

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Was Osama Bin Laden’s Assassination Lawful?

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  1. Was Osama Bin Laden’s Assassination Lawful? U.S. law does not provide legal authority for assassination as military action. The US violated Pakistani sovereignty, and thus international law Execution without trial and due process violates American legal norms

  2. Was Osama Bin Laden’s Assassination Just? • Were principles of fairness and due process satisfied with his repeated claims of responsibility? • Did it provide compensation, closure, or satisfaction to the survivors of the 9/11 and other attacks? 3. Did it deprive those survivors and others the possibility of true justice via a trial?

  3. Fuller, “The Problem of the Grudge Informer,” 159 Based on actual case under Nazis Woman wanted to get rid of husband, makes false accusation Husband was sentenced to death, but was instead sent to Russian front

  4. Fuller, “The Problem of the Grudge Informer,” 159 Husband survives, comes back, and charges wife after war with “unlawful deprivation of liberty” under the German Criminal Code of 1871 – a code in place under Nazi rule.

  5. Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907 Art. 22. The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited.

  6. Jackson at Nuremberg, p. 22 Trial of Nazi War Criminals 4 Powers Prosecuting: France, U.K., U.S., U.S.S.R. First ever War Crimes Trial – initiated under authority of U.N.

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