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Topic started on 10-5-2011 @ 06:33 PM by SLAYER69
Bin Laden's Son Says 'Arbitrary' Killing of His Father Was Illegal
The letter from Omar bin Laden, purporting to be on behalf of other family members, was reported by the New York Times. It cites the U.S. government's reports that bin Laden was unarmed but was killed by a team of Navy SEALs during a May 2 raid at a compound in Pakistan. The letter said the U.S. should have arrested bin Laden and put him on trial as was done with Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic.

"If he has been summarily executed then we question the propriety of such assassination where not only international law has been blatantly violated" but also U.S. laws guaranteeing presumption of innocence anda fair trial, the letter says. "We maintain that arbitrary killing is not a solution to political problems."


I just saw this posted a little bit ago and thought by now somebody would have posted the story here at ATS. So purportedly some of OBL family believes he was killed in the raid and are coming out stating that their view it was an illegal killing.

I thought I post it to see what other members think.


reply posted on 10-5-2011 @ 06:56 PM by SLAYER69
reply to post by nenothtu


They seemed convinced he died in the raid.
Unless of course they are simply trying to take advantage of the situation.


reply posted on 10-5-2011 @ 06:58 PM by Helious
reply to post by superman2012


His involvement with 9/11 is irrelevant, he had taken credit for far more terrorist attacks killing people before that.


reply posted on 10-5-2011 @ 07:04 PM by ~Lucidity
Emotion aside, technically, he may be right, if this was considered an act of war that they used as the precedent to go in there. Killing vs capturing an unarmed combatant would be illegal, no? I think that's what I've read anyway.

That's still the OS, right? Unarmed? I lost track of this particular detail.

Apparently, plenty of others agree.

Concerns raised over shooting of unarmed bin Laden, burial
ormer West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told German TV the operation could have incalculable consequences in the Arab world at a time of unrest there.

"It was quite clearly a violation of international law," .

It was a view echoed by high-profile Australian human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson.

"It's not justice. It's a perversion of the term. Justice means taking someone to court, finding them guilty upon evidence and sentencing them," Robertson told Australian Broadcasting Corp television from London.


and this www.abovetopsecret.com...



reply posted on 10-5-2011 @ 07:25 PM by loveguy
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Bin Laden's Son Says 'Arbitrary' Killing of His Father Was Illegal
The letter from Omar bin Laden, purporting to be on behalf of other family members, was reported by the New York Times. It cites the U.S. government's reports that bin Laden was unarmed but was killed by a team of Navy SEALs during a May 2 raid at a compound in Pakistan. The letter said the U.S. should have arrested bin Laden and put him on trial as was done with Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic.

"If he has been summarily executed then we question the propriety of such assassination where not only international law has been blatantly violated" but also U.S. laws guaranteeing presumption of innocence anda fair trial, the letter says. "We maintain that arbitrary killing is not a solution to political problems."


I just saw this posted a little bit ago and thought by now somebody would have posted the story here at ATS. So purportedly some of OBL family believes he was killed in the raid and are coming out stating that their view it was an illegal killing.

I thought I post it to see what other members think.


Following the Japan beastly thread I'm learning to read between the lines in statements presented to us by the media...

"If he has been"...If. Now IF we believe...because we've been presented with the true account handed to us by our media from say the Gulf of Tonkin and since, well.

It just so happens that I have via screengrab evidence that OBL was my friend on FB...we were chatting about the Royal Wedding, and we had a friendly wager of $3.5 m...that Kate wouldn't cry tears of joy...

Where's my compensation?






reply posted on 10-5-2011 @ 07:32 PM by Golithion
A grand jury charged him with "Inciting violence against US citizens in 1998" according to this article here which has some interesting info it's from 1998: articles.cnn.com...:US

and this one say's he was formally charged for the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania: www.indianexpress.com...

Thought those would be relevant

Here's another one from the New York Times: .www.nytimes.com...
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I had to add this here is the text of the indictment: www.fas.org...
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reply posted on 10-5-2011 @ 07:36 PM by LadySkadi
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by nenothtu


They seemed convinced he died in the raid.
Unless of course they are simply trying to take advantage of the situation.


People will believe what they want to believe and most have had their minds made up long ago, with or without substantive evidence to give the opinion/belief true weight. My opinion of OBL's "official" death is this: he got what he gave in life and in that, it ended as it was lived. Good riddance...

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