Convention needed for war on terror

VARIOUS individuals have protested against the killing of Osama bin Laden while unarmed on the grounds that this was against the law.

But this overlooks the fact that the law must be appropriate. Criminal law patently failed to produce justice for the victims in major terror incidents such as 9/11, Lockerbie, Omagh and the Air India 182.

The reason being that it was never envisaged that it would be used in these circumstances.