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== The Assault == | == The Assault == | ||
Abottabad, Sunday night, beginning Monday. In most parts of the world it is still Sunday, the first of May. In Pakistan, the first hour of the second day of the month. Still dark, but a sudden noise makes Osama bin Laden wake up. He knows they are coming to kill him. He holds to his wife. He cannot see his killers, but they can see him; one of them aims at his forehead and splits it open in the shape of a V. | Abottabad, Sunday night, beginning Monday. In most parts of the world it is still Sunday, the first of May. In Pakistan, the first hour of the second day of the month. Still dark, but a sudden noise makes Osama bin Laden wake up. He knows they are coming to kill him. He holds to his wife. He cannot see his killers, but they can see him; one of them aims at his forehead and splits it open in the shape of a V. | ||
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[[Datei:Osama_bin_Laden_watching_TV_at_his_compound_in_Pakistan-3.jpg|200px|thumb|right| Probably 2010, certainly watching TV, (c) purportedly U.S. Government]] | [[Datei:Osama_bin_Laden_watching_TV_at_his_compound_in_Pakistan-3.jpg|200px|thumb|right| Probably 2010, certainly watching TV, (c) purportedly U.S. Government]] | ||
What happened that night in Abottabad? How is this assault to be judged in legal, in moral, in political terms? | |||
= | The dominant political discourse shows no doubts that what happened was "just". President Obama proclaimed: "And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done" (2 May 2011 White House [http://www. | ||
whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead]. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said: "Personally, I am very much relieved by the news that justice has been done"[http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/ | |||
statments_full.asp?statID=1163]. | |||
=== | == The Legal Debate == | ||
This referred to the fact that - while killing a person is generally prohibited by law and subject to criminal prosecution as homicide - there are certain exceptions in which such a killing can be justified, the most well-known of these being self-defense and the legal execution that carries out a judicial death sentence. In times of war, even mass killings are tolerated as long as they concern enemy troops. Wartime law not only legitimizes killing enemies actually engaged in hostilities, but also non-aggressive members of enemy troops qua membership in the enemy's armed forces. | This referred to the fact that - while killing a person is generally prohibited by law and subject to criminal prosecution as homicide - there are certain exceptions in which such a killing can be justified, the most well-known of these being self-defense and the legal execution that carries out a judicial death sentence. In times of war, even mass killings are tolerated as long as they concern enemy troops. Wartime law not only legitimizes killing enemies actually engaged in hostilities, but also non-aggressive members of enemy troops qua membership in the enemy's armed forces. | ||
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(S/PRST/2011/9) is questionable: ‘The Security Council welcomes the news on 1 May 2011 that Osama bin | (S/PRST/2011/9) is questionable: ‘The Security Council welcomes the news on 1 May 2011 that Osama bin | ||
Laden will never again be able to perpetrate such acts of terrorism’. | Laden will never again be able to perpetrate such acts of terrorism’. | ||
== Legitimizing Images == | |||
== Criminological Questions == | |||
=== Motivation to Kill === | |||
*FBI Typology | |||
*Obedience to Authority | |||
*Techniques of Neutralization | |||
== Weblinks == | == Weblinks == | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden Death of Osama bin Laden in: en.wikipedia] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden Death of Osama bin Laden in: en.wikipedia] | ||