IT WAS LEGAL BECAUSE WE DID IT:

Osama bin Laden: UN watchdogs demand mission details: Human rights chiefs want to know if US operation ever considered capturing al-Qaida leader alive (Peter Walker, 5/05/11, guardian.co.uk)

Two United Nations human rights watchdogs have asked the US to provide details about the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, in particular whether it ever included the possibility that he could be captured alive.

A series of questions have arisen about the potential legality of the mission after it emerged that four of the five people killed when US Navy Seals raided the house in Abbottabad, Pakistan, were unarmed, Bin Laden among them.

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