During the Desert War in North Africa, the British 8th Army tried- very hard- to assassinate Field Marshal Erwin Rommel;
http://ww2warstories.tripod.com/id24.htm
On 18 April 1943, U.S. Army Air Force P-38 Lightning fighters of the 12th, 339th, and 70th Fighter Squadrons (334th Fighter Group) intercepted a Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G4M “Betty” twin-engined bomber over the SW coast of Bougainville and shot it down. Thereby achieving their stated mission objective; the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vengeance
In each case, the mission was deemed legal under the laws of war.
(Also, please note that Rommel was nearly taken out by the British Army. No “cowboy” Americans involved.)
Starting a fight does not give you immunity from being a casualty when the other guy decides to finish it.
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