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=== Law of War ===
=== Law of War ===
According to Ambos and Alkatouta (2012) the law of war does not justify the killing either. While international law is rather permissive with regard to (even mass) killings, its justifications do not spread all the way to cover the killing of bin Laden under the given circumstances.
According to Ambos and Alkatouta (2012) the law of war does not justify the killing. While international law is rather permissive with regard to (even mass) killings, its justifications do not spread all the way to cover the killing of bin Laden under the given circumstances.
   
   


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The operation may also have violated international law by failing to respect Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty. Ultimately, this depends on the recognition of a (pre-emptive) right to self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter, in particular taking into account the immediacy criterion.
The operation may also have violated international law by failing to respect Pakistan’s territorial sovereignty. Ultimately, this depends on the recognition of a (pre-emptive) right to self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter, in particular taking into account the immediacy criterion.


2 Jeremy Scahill, ‘Osama’s Assassins’, The Nation, New York, 4 May 2011, available at http://www.thenation.
com/article/160447/osamas-assassins. See also Nicholas Schmidle, ‘Getting Bin Laden – What Happened That
Night in Abbottabad’, The New Yorker, New York, 8 August 2011, available at http://www.newyorker.com/


States must ensure that any measure taken to combat terrorism comply with all their obligations under
States must ensure that any measure taken to combat terrorism comply with all their obligations under
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