On the killing of Osama Bin Laden Posted by Helena Cobban

On the killing of Osama Bin Laden

Posted by Helena Cobban
May 2, 2011 - http://justworldnews.org/archives/004198.html

The rhetoric surrounding the operation is important. However, the idea that Bin Laden was killed in "a firefight" doesn't seem to have any evidence to back it up; and it seems to me distinctly possible that the U.S. team went in and simply snuffed him out. This is a modus operandi very frequently used by the U.S. forces using drones or other killing machines, in Pakistan or elsewhere. Such killings are correctly termed extra-judicial executions (EJEs) because they are carried out far outside the normal, and normally transparent, workings of legal systems.