State-Sponsored Assassination
A State-Sponsored Assassination is an assassination that is a state-sponsored event.
- Context:
- It can be connected with an unavoidable Killing of Nearby Civilians.
- Example(s):
- the killing of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki by the U.S. Govt. on September 30, 2011 in northern Yemen (who was uncharged, and that resulted in the killing of another American Samir Khan).
- the killing of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. Govt. on May 2, 2011, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
- by the State of Israel[1].
- by the State of Iran[2].
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: State-Sponsored Political Overthrow.
References
2016
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing
- Targeted killing is a modern euphemism for the assassination (premeditated killing) of an individual by a state organization or institution outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield.
Targeted killings were employed extensively by death squads in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Haiti within the context of civil unrest and war during the 1980s and 1990s. Targeted killings have also been used in Somalia, Rwanda, and in the Balkans during the Yugoslav Wars. The United States government also carries out targeted killings, such as the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki. Targeted killings have also been used by narcotics traffickers.
Use of targeted killings by Israeli conventional military forces became commonplace after the Second Intifada, when Israeli security forces used the tactic to kill Palestinian opponents.[1] Though initially opposed by the Bush Administration,[2][not in citation given] targeted killings have become a frequent tactic of the United States government in the War on Terror. Instances of targeted killing by the United States that have received significant attention include the killing of Osama bin Laden and of American citizens Anwar al-Awlaki and his teenage son in 2011. Under the Obama administration use of targeted killings has expanded, most frequently through use of combat drones operating in Afghanistan, Pakistan or Yemen.
The legality of targeted killing is disputed. Some[3] academics, military personnel and officials describe targeted killing as legitimate within the context of self-defense, when employed against terrorists or combatants engaged in asymmetrical warfare. They argue that drones are more humane and more accurate than manned vehicles.[4][5] Others, including academics such as Gregory Johnsen and Charles Schmitz, twenty-six members of Congress,[6] some media sources (Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald,[7] James Traub), civil rights groups like the American Civil Liberties Union[8] and ex-CIA station chief in Islamabad, Robert Grenier[9] have criticized targeted killings as a form of extrajudicial killings, which may be illegal within the United States and possibly under international law.
- Targeted killing is a modern euphemism for the assassination (premeditated killing) of an individual by a state organization or institution outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield.
- ↑ Nir Gazit and Robert J. Brym, State-directed political assassination in Israel: A political hypothesis. International Sociology 26(6) (2011), pp. 862–877
- ↑ David Johnston and David E. Sanger, "Threats and Responses: Hunt for Suspects", The New York Times, 6 November 2002.
- ↑ "Targeted Killings". Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/counterterrorism/targeted-killings/p9627. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
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- ↑ Glaser, John (13 June 2012). "House Members Call on Obama to Legally Justify 'Signature' Drone Strikes". Antiwar.com. http://news.antiwar.com/2012/06/13/house-members-call-on-obama-to-legally-justify-signature-drone-strikes/. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ↑ "The Assassination Complex": Jeremy Scahill & Glenn Greenwald Probe Secret US Drone Wars in New Book. Democracy Now! 3 May 2016.
- ↑ Shamsi, Hina (3 March 2014). "Death Without Due Process". American Civil Liberties Union. https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/death-without-due-process-0. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
- ↑ Glaser, John (6 June 2012). "Former CIA Official Drone War Kills Innocents, Creates Terrorist Safe Havens". Antiwar.com. http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/06/06/former-cia-official-drone-war-kills-innocents-creates-terrorist-safe-havens/. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
2016
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/15/targeted-killing-secrecy-drone-memos-excerpt
- QUOTE: Obama administration officials insisted that drone strikes were lawful, but the “law” they invoked was their own. It was written by executive branch lawyers behind closed doors, withheld from the public and even from Congress, and shielded from judicial review. ... Secret law is unsettling in any context, but it was especially so in this one. ... The deliberate and premeditated targeted killing of one of its own citizens – something the United States had not done since at least the civil war ... Perhaps as significant is the jarring fact that the practice of targeted killing – assassination, as it would once have been called, without a second thought – no longer seems remarkable, and the fact that the United States now boasts a legal and bureaucratic infrastructure to sustain this practice. ... The question the next president will ask is not whether the powers Obama claimed should be exploited, but where, and against whom.