Just as guantanamo was against America's interests though judged legal by some American courts, so targeted assassination may cause more problems than it solves.

就比如关塔那摩，尽管被一些美国法院判定为合法，但却有悖于美国的利益——因此针对性的暗杀引致的问题可能会比它解决的问题还多。

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It is not just that international law, which surely applies in this case, is less generous towards targeted assassination. There are questions to be asked even under American law.

不仅是因为国际法(肯定适用于这种情况)对有针对性的暗杀不太宽容，就算参照美国的律法，此事仍有许多问题需要追问。

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The BBC's Quentin Sommerville, in Kabul, says that this type of targeted assassination is a tactic that has been used on a number of occasions by the Taliban.

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He said she wanted to know if it was "a targeted assassination of a British citizen committed by agents of a foreign state in the sovereign territory of the United Kingdom".

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There is no doubt that the Taliban has a very targeted assassination program against people who are working with the coalition and people who are associated with the Afghan government, even at local levels.

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