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On Tuesday June 28th from 12:00 Noon until 2:00 PM The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, International Center for Terrorism Studies will host the event Was Killing bin Laden an Illegal “Extrajudicial Execution,” a “War Crime,” or a Lawful Act During Armed Conflict? The details can be found here.

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What I just tweeted:

My son, who will be born in about 9 days, will never breathe the same air as Osama Bin Laden. That’s wonderful.

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Over at Lawfare Ben Wittes aks Will Bin Laden’s Death Reignite the Interrogation Debate? I think there is little doubt that it will.

Consider this recent post by Marc Thiessen over at The American Enterprise blog.  Thiessen writes

“So Guantanamo detainees provided the key intelligence that allowed the CIA to track down bin [...]

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I’m guest blogging over at Opinio Juris, below is a repost of something I wrote there:

First off, there is a lot of talk about this operation being a “human operation” involving special operations forces.  Some readers may assume that this meant there were no air assets involved (e.g. no Predators and no bombs [...]

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The always fantastic Sentinel, a publication of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center is now available on-line, here. 

There is an interesting line up of articles on al Qaeda specifically, and the jihadist threat more broadly.  Included are:

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