The Mabhouh liquidation and international law

The Los Angeles Times has a forum of military and human rights lawyers debating the liquidation of Hamas terrorist and arms dealer Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The lawyers all assume that Mabhouh was killed by Israel's Mossad and then debate the question of whether the killing was justified.The most extreme view was that taken by Philip Alston, the UN's special rapporteur on targeted killings, who argues