The seals are fine as long as they don’t talk about it.
I think international law is a joke as much as I assume other posters here do… but it is not that bad when it comes to combat rules (i.e., if you don’t incriminate yourself you have a lot of latitude to just shoot the enemy and or it has room for common sense in a war).
Osama was not a civilian. They (the seal team) are not police. They are soldiers and Osama was a self declared combatant in a war he declared. The seals didn’t know if he had a gun or not, didn’t know if he had a remote detonator or not, didn’t know if he had back up about to show up and pin them down in the middle of a foreign country in a military town, et cetera. The seal team can’t say they would have rejected a surrender of Osama… but considering the dangers to them (examples above) in pausing to complete one, they can say they couldn’t safely complete one with him (hence double tap made the most sense in their situation).
If the super smartest administration in US history (and/or it’s fricken Attorney General) had said something like that after the raid… the lefty Germans wouldn’t have much they could say or do to be annoying about this…
