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Targeted killings

by Claire Oakes Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, Andrew Altman

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The controversy surrounding targeted killings represents a crisis of conscience for policymakers, lawyers and philosophers grappling with the moral and legal limits of the war on terror. This text examines the legal and philosophical issues raised by government efforts to target suspected terrorists.

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