From the UK Telegraph:The killing of Osama bin Laden could be used as legal justification for the death of Muammar Gaddafi, MPs have been told.
Independent researchers from the House of Commons Library suggested that the arguments the United States has used to justify the death of the al-Qaeda leader could be also be applied to the killing of others.
American officials have said that it was legal for US forces to kill bin Laden because he was in direct command of forces hostile to US national interests.
"Some of the arguments used to present Bin Laden's killing as lawful could also be applied if coalition forces kill Colonel Gaddafi," the researchers said.
The library paper, 'Killing Osama bin Laden: has justice been done?', also predicted that the "targeted killing" of individuals may become more common as a consequence of his death.......read on
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