Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy by Mark M. Lowenthal

Author:Mark M. Lowenthal
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Intelligence & Espionage, Intelligence Service - United States, Intelligence Service, General, United States, Political Science, Military, Public Policy, History
ISBN: 9780872896000
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2000-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

THE ASSASSINATION BAN: A MODERN INTERPRETATION

In August 1998 the United States launched a cruise missile attack on targets in Afghanistan associated with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The United States believed that bin Laden was behind the terrorist attacks earlier that month on two U.S. embassies in East Africa.

The Clinton administration later stated that one goal of the raid was to kill bin Laden and his lieutenants. Administration officials also argued that their targeting of bin Laden did not violate the long-standing ban on assassinations. Their view was based on an opinion written by National Security Council lawyers that the United States could legally target terrorist infrastructures and that bin Laden’s main infrastructure was human.

After the September 2001 attacks, bin Laden and other terrorists were seen as legitimate combatant targets, as the United States was at war against them.

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