Proceeding contribution from Lord Thomas of Swynnerton (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 3 May 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden
My Lords, it is difficult to think of a precedent for this action, carried out so successfully and competently by the American special services; I suppose there was Entebbe, carried out by the Israelis so many years ago. Bearing that in mind, were there to be similar circumstances in future with the desire to finish off an enemy in a foreign country, as there well may be, would the Government support the idea of capturing the person concerned and keeping him to be tried and brought to justice in a different way, as has happened with some war criminals in the past?
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- 2010-12
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- Counter-terrorism Death Armed conflict Pakistan Terrorism USA Afghanistan Libya al Qaeda Military intervention Embassies bin Laden, Osama Special forces
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