{"id":519772,"date":"2010-04-07T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11857"},"modified":"2010-04-07T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T23:25:00","slug":"a-question-about-targeted-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519772","title":{"rendered":"A Question About Targeted Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Kevin Jon Heller <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/06\/AR2010040604121.html?hpid=topnews\">notes<\/a>, the Obama administration has authorized the CIA to assassinate Aulaqi wherever he is found.\u00a0 It is very unlikely that CIA agents qualify as lawful combatants &#8212; they don&#8217;t distinguish themselves from the civilian population, they don&#8217;t carry their arms openly, etc.\u00a0 So, let&#8217;s assume that CIA agents manage to kill Aulaqi in Afghanistan.\u00a0 I assume everyone would be okay with Afghanistan capturing and prosecuting those agents for murder?\u00a0 They would have no combatant&#8217;s privilege, and &#8220;self-defense&#8221; would only (at best) prohibit Afghanistan from claiming that the US committed an internationally wrongful act.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/XAieo5dMR9M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Jon Heller As the Washington Post notes, the Obama administration has authorized the CIA to assassinate Aulaqi wherever he is found.\u00a0 It is very unlikely that CIA agents qualify as lawful combatants &#8212; they don&#8217;t distinguish themselves from the civilian population, they don&#8217;t carry their arms openly, etc.\u00a0 So, let&#8217;s assume that CIA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}