Friday, May 6, 2011

Do We Care?: U.N. Questions Legality of Bin Laden's Killing

He was the FBI's "Most Wanted" terrorist for killing thousands of innocent Americans, but just days after U.S. Navy SEALs stormed Usama bin Laden's Pakistan compound and killed the Al Qaeda leader, a U.N. official wants to make sure the operation was carried out legally.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called Thursday for a “full disclosure of the accurate facts” on Usama bin Laden’s killing.
The full story is HERE.

Here Neil Cavuto of Fox News reacts to the U.N.'s request:



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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would have preferred they brought osama back so he can rot in prison instead of killing him and giving him the easy way out.

larry said...

We should throw these bums out of the country.

Why do we host these idiots here?

Ellie said...

He's dead. UN can cry all they want, but business was taken care of and now we move on.

Closer To Home said...

There is an important issue here wrapped up in how we defend our actions in the killing of UBL, and it exposes the administration's deepest feeling about our foreign wars.

Under international law, whether bin Laden was armed or not, whether he was aggressive or not, whether he surrendered or not, are very important questions when considering using mortal force. They might consider whether the SEALs identified themselves and whether they gave UBL a chance to surrender.

But under rules of war, UBL was a lawful enemy combatant, and our SEALs would be allowed to kill him as such so long as he did "surrender," which is pragmatically very difficult to do DURING an operation. Even if UBL had been lying on the ground, arms outstretched, should not our soldiers have assumed he was committed to not being taken alive and that he may well have either booby trapped himself or the compound?

But the administration has not put forth a defense on the basis of rules of war.

SO, President Obama, when did you sign the armistice?