Osama bin Laden terrorism law: U.S. justified in killing Osama Bin Laden - latimes.com

Osama bin Laden terrorism law: U.S. justified in killing Osama Bin Laden - latimes.com: "International lawyers today see the law of war as 'humanitarian law.' That's what they call it. They see the waving of a white flag as the exercise of a human right. This is moral and legal confusion. Surrender isn't a human right. It's a privilege of lawful combat. Terrorists don't lose all legal protections — for example, they can't be sadistically tortured, even if they torture their prisoners — but they forfeit the special rights earned by lawful combatants, including the right to stop the shooting by raising one's hands in purported surrender."