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Originally Posted by DWB
The CIA admitting to trying to assassinate Fidel Castro on numerous occasions. Sanctioned "hits" are illegal now, so they wrap it under the guise of terrorism, where it's perfectly legal to assassinate boogiemen.
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Massive difference between the CIA "trying" to assassinate the leader of a foreign country forty years ago and "illegal hits" by the FBI.
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Originally Posted by DWB
Anwar al-Awlaki was an American. He was an alleged terrorist, but he was American, and they assassinated him, bypassing due process.
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He was a terrorist.
Being as the United States has no legal authority outside of the United States, and the only way it can stop terrorists from committed acts against the US to take them out - being as we cannot arrest them. The fact that he was a US citizen is pretty much irrelevant because US law does not apply in other countries, and US citizens are not covered under American law.
I don't loose any sleep over what happened to Anwar al-Awlaki.