[LINK] OT: bin Laden is dead

[roger.clarke at xamax.com.au]

Geronimo! EKIA 38 minutes to mission success
Christina Lamb and Nicola Smith
The Australian May 09, 2011 12:00AM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/geronimo-ekia-38-minutes-to-mission-success/story-e6frg6so-1226052094513
[Heavily dependent on the Sunday Times of London.  The original is behind
the Murdoch paywall]
...
>The Sunday Times has been told by Pentagon sources that the operation was
always meant to be a kill raid. "There wasn't even a code for capturing
him," the source said.
>
>Saxby Chambliss, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, who was
briefed on the raid, said later: "I hope they went in with the idea of
killing him, not capturing him. We needed to take this guy out. And I
know that's what the executive order said."
...

I feel all the more comfortable about my previous remarks that "It's
abundantly clear that the US President authorised, and the navy team
committed, cold-blooded murder.  The act is in breach of international
law, and subject to prosecution in the International Criminal Court".

Chambliss would be a star witness for the prosecution.

Obama has to rely on the power of the US to avoid indictment.

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