Dare I Ask It?

Has Osama bin Laden become a martyr? Dare I ask the question? Certainly in portions of the Arab world he has become so.

Now comes evidence the Obama administration broke International law to accomplish the gruesome business. This from a President who promised to re-establish the rule of law.

For days I have avoided reading press accounts or listening to broadcast reports of this murderous deed. I knew I wanted to form my own opinions without media blather. This I am beginning to do tonight with the help of the important article linked below. Author Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler* has quite clearly set forth the way crimes of the nature attributed to bin Laden are to be handled. He exposes the hypocrisy of an administration which lectures countries about their human rights abuses, then does not even follow International law itself. (I suspect, but cannot yet prove, that this assassination was contrary to U.S. law.)

I love my country very much and I decry the dramatic and atrocious killing which took place on September 11, 2001. But as is said here, Osama has proved he could not be killed legally. What a sad commentary on the state of affairs in the United States and the world.

* Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler is an international lawyer with an office in Washington D.C., a professor at Webster University and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both located in Geneva, Switzerland, and the representative of Nord-Sud XXI at the UN in New York and Geneva.

Source: < Jurist.org >


http://jurist.org/forum/2011/05/curtis-doebbler-illegal-killing-obl.php