In association with the International Commission of Jurists

May 2011

01 May

Beyond confirming that Bin Laden was actually the person killed in Abottabad, what is the significance of troops being on the ground to conduct the Bin Laden Operation?  Can their presence lead us to the new #1 in al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri? In the coming days we will likely hear about the gathering of "pocket litter" and other exploitable intelligence and...

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01 May

Thanks to OJ for allowing me to guest blog for a bit.  I'm a law professor at Pepperdine, specializing in national security law and policy. 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...

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01 May

I'm sure most readers are aware that President Obama is about to announce that Osama Bin Laden has been killed, in a mansion outside of Islamabad, Pakistan.  I'm just going to leave this as an open thread.  I'm not quite sure what the international law aspects of this will turn out to be, as we have no details at this...

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