The outrage caused by Rory Stewart's suggestion that jihadis should be killed is a bit late. UK gov has been extrajudicially killing UK citizens in Syria since ~2013. Seems it does this because the men are dangers but the evidence against them is not permissible in a court of law
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ALSO a metaphor. The confusion here is over where we've crossed over from domestic criminal law into the international law OF WAR.
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You don't appear to understand. The killings were perpetrated against UK citizens who were not designated as foreign soldiers, and who had not (yet) taken up arms against the UK.
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