"...On the other hand, they also quote a lawyer who indicates that 'this means a criminal prosecution is necessary,' perhaps before some international tribunal..." LOL!
It is easier to obtain forgiveness than it is to obtain permission.
Silly lawyers... Events will unfold without their 'input' being required, or solicited.
The murdering raghead will be dead. Who are the ambulance chasers who are offended going to sue who has the power to change that reality?
Not entirely. Recall that some JAG-corps bozo nixed shooting the head of the Taliban--we had him in the sights of a drone w/cruise missles and a freaking LAWYER said that 'it doesn't pass the smell test' to take him out. I understand that Rumsfield almost turned his office into a junkyard he was so p****ed.