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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]]
-What happened that night in Abottabad? How is this assault to be judged in legal, in moral, in political terms?
+What happened that night in Abottabad? How is this assault to be judged in legal, in moral, in political terms? Was it vengeance, an act of legal justice, or was it an act of war, a crime?
-According to the dominant political discourse, what had happened was an act of justice.
+Fundamentally, of course, the killing of a person is prohibited by law, and it is considered a serious crime. Normally, therefore, to kill a person is seen as unlawful and unjust. To be in accordance with the law, the killing has to occur under exceptional circumstances:
+*in peacetime, to kill a person can be justified as
+**an act of self-defense against an imminent threat or
+**judicial execution of a death sentence.
+*in wartime, to kill a person can be justified
+**against an enemy engaged in hostilities
+**against an enemy not engaged in hostilities qua his membership in a hostile armed group (i.e.: in times of war, even mass killings are tolerated as long as they concern enemy troops).
+A look into the dominant political discourse reveals a strong conviction that what had happened in Abottabad should be qualified not as a crime, but an act of justice.
 *President Obama: "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."
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 *UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon: "Personally, I am very much relieved by the news that justice has been done."
-*German chancellor Angela Merkel: "Ich freue mich darüber, dass es gelungen ist, Bin Laden zu töten." Evidently, she, too, albeit daughter of a Protestant pastor, whose church preaches "Thou Shalt Not Kill", thinks what happened was an act of justice.
+*German chancellor Angela Merkel, daughter of a protestant pastor: "Ich freue mich darüber, dass es gelungen ist, Bin Laden zu töten."
+Nevertheless the question remains: which one of the possible justications of a killing could apply to the events in Abottabad?
 == Justice = Legality? ==
+Political representatives are bound by the laws of their lands, and that is what they are being sworn into at the beginning of their office. Hence, they should identify "justice" with "conforming to the rule of law"; but was the killing a legally sound affair?
+=== International Law ===
-Fundamentally, of course, the killing of a person is prohibited by law, and it is considered a serious crime. Normally, therefore, to kill a person is seen as unlawful and unjust. To be in accordance with the law, the killing has to occur under exceptional circumstances:
-*in peacetime, to kill a person can be justified as
-**an act of self-defense against an imminent threat or
-**judicial execution of a death sentence.
-*in wartime, to kill a person can be justified
-**against an enemy engaged in hostilities
-**against an enemy not engaged in hostilities qua his membership in a hostile armed group (i.e.: in times of war, even mass killings are tolerated as long as they concern enemy troops).
 == Circumstances of the Killing ==