[Nettime-bold] Re: Operation Oxymoron and Afghanistan

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

Chris asked:
Or, to get closer to the idea of terrorism, was it "assassination" or
"terrorism" to bomb and kill Q'addafi's adopted baby daughter?


It was "targeted killing", I believe.

ivo

ps - who came up with the "Infinite Justice" name? Isn't justice by 
definition something that we all expect to be finite? Or does this 
name suppose to imply both the US and Al Qaeda's justice to be 
metted ad infinitum over our heads?



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Or, to get closer to the idea of terrorism, was it "assassination" &
"terrorism" to bomb and kill Q'addafi's adopted baby daughter?

Chris





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In a message dated 9/27/2001 3:44:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
cblake@LSU.EDU writes:


ConsiderTom Franck's Hypothetical.  What if some Czechoslovakia in 1938 had
direct and absolutely verifiable intelligence that Hitler was in the
process of trying to commit genocide on the Jewish people of the region and
that he (Hitler) was going to attack Czechoslovakia soon, so as to
dismember it and take it over after the Munich Pact.  If Edvard Benes
infiltrated a trained death squad of German Jewish exiles across the German
border, in civilian clothing, to assassinate Hitler, would their success at
doing that be a violation of international law?  See also my discussion of
this problem in my terrorism book.  It seems to me that it would not
violate international law.  Would it have stopped the horrors of WWII?
Probably not.  Goering, I guess, would have taken over or someone else just
about as bad, so it would not likely have helped.  Still, the questions of
legality and morality are interesting and troublesome.

Cordially,



How about a more recent example.  What if Nato had killed Milosevic when it
bombed his residence during the 1999 air campaign?

Michael



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