Osama Bin Laden Dead

[Ryllharu]

I'm not sure what tone you meant this in, but I'll respond anyway.

It's been confirmed, one of the facts of the missions: Bin Laden was unarmed.

I was not aware that he or his organization ceased hostilities against the US and US forces abroad, so he wasn't covered by the Geneva Conventions. He was treated with (relative) dignity, and was not subject to particular humiliating and degrading treatment. They shot him in the head, got some DNA samples, and buried him at sea, reportedly treated to Islamic practice and tradition.

I can't find anything about what types of bullets the SEALs used, but they did not likely use hollow-points, so the operation should have been within the Hague Conventions as well.

Armed or unarmed, he reportedly did not surrender, making him still a combatant. Can you really martyr someone who was believed to have been on the run for years fighting his "good fight," but was actually living in comfort?

[Carnage]

Can you really martyr someone who was believed to have been on the run for years fighting his "good fight," but was actually living in comfort?

Considering the outlash from several groups of people in the middle east, yes?

[Animeniax]

I'm not sure what tone you meant this in, but I'll respond anyway.

I was not aware that he or his organization ceased hostilities against the US and US forces abroad, so he wasn't covered by the Geneva Conventions. He was treated with (relative) dignity, and was not subject to particular humiliating and degrading treatment. They shot him in the head, got some DNA samples, and buried him at sea, reportedly treated to Islamic practice and tradition.

I can't find anything about what types of bullets the SEALs used, but they did not likely use hollow-points, so the operation should have been within the Hague Conventions as well.

Armed or unarmed, he reportedly did not surrender, making him still a combatant. Can you really martyr someone who was believed to have been on the run for years fighting his "good fight," but was actually living in comfort?

That wasn't the dispute. He contended that Bin Laden was armed so he had to be shot in the face. I said he most likely let his guard down due to complacency and probably didn't have a weapon at hand when the specops arrived.