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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by beaconstudios on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:07AM (#17565839)
My understanding is its based on how much it will divide the HN community, causing flame wars and unproductive conversation. Pretty much everyone agrees that US citizens shouldn't be hit by drone strikes.
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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by throwaway5752 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:13AM (#17565887)
Really? Because in the case of Anwar al-Awlaki I think it's much more of a gray area.

edit: agree entirely that the case in the article (Bilal Abdul Kareem) is no gray area. The difficulties interleaving points about the generality of a topic and specific cases.

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by beaconstudios on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:18AM (#17565946)
potentially, sure, but I was more referring to the current article. There's no indication that the guy is actually a terrorist in this case.
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