The paper details the reasons and conditions that a targeted killing of a United States citizen overseas would be lawful under American and international law.

文中详细介绍了定点清除海外美国公民合法的理由和条件是基于美国和国际法律。

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But Mr Holder said Bin Laden was a lawful military target, whose killing was "an act of national self-defence".

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