Mike - compliments returned - if it was a serious attempt to bring him to justice there would have been some effort to capture him and bring him to stand trial. Rather they were prepared to slaughter a compound full of mainly women and children rather than let him escape and no effort whatever was made to bring him back alive - shot squarely in the face while attempting to escape - come on!!
"well informed people"
Hiding behind selected experts again Keith - look up the varying reports of the response to his killing rather than seizing on the first convenient one.
Incidently, Pakistan was one of those listed as being both angry and disturbed at what happened, contrary to your claims.
There are full breakdowns of the varied responses throughout the world if you care to do your homework properly.
"Also, they are a West hating terrorist organisation, so not surprising they agree with you."
One again a deliberate distortion of what I have put forward - as I said earlier, always a sign that you have run out of steam:
My earlier contribution sums up exactly my own feelings about the whole affair - from an American, and I believe that of others who find it distasteful.
"In 1945, Robert H Jackson, the chief United States prosecutor, said in a court in Nuremberg: "That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power ever has paid to Reason."
That would have been justice and not the act of revenge I believe it was.
Jim Carroll