YESTERDAY American special forces killed Osama bin Laden just 100 kilometres north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad. This killing was right and proper unlike the killing of Muammar Ghaddafi's son Saif al-Arab at the weekend in Tripoli by a NATO airstrike.
Libya still has a legitimate government, even though it is facing a rebellion; Libya has not declared war on Europe or America; and Saif was not a combatant. NATO should apologise for his death.
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