The killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is engaging some of the thorniest questions of the United States’ post-Sept. 11 campaign against terrorism, including the government’s legal justification for carrying out the targeted killing of suspected terrorists.
Lawyers who specialize in national security said today that the United States had several possible legal justifications for carrying out Sunday’s strike. But the operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, raises other issues, too.
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