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Currently, there are no unified U.S. government criteria even for targeting an American citizen abroad, and the decision process in the executive branch is classified.
And according to media accounts, the operation was conducted following the issuance of a secret memorandum issued by the Department of Justice which authorized the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen abroad".
And, as a rule, the memo argued, the President could kill any American citizen abroad connected to Al Qaeda or an associated group — without a trial or other legal proceedings — if he deemed that person an imminent threat.
The quote in question was first published in a Swiss magazine (under Article 301 of the penal code as it stood at the time, the crime of denigrating Turkishness was deemed more serious if committed by a Turkish citizen abroad).
Australia has never withdrawn diplomatic staff over an execution of a citizen abroad, but on Tuesday evening the prime minster, Tony Abbott, said he was recalling Australia's ambassador to Indonesia, Paul Grigson.
Indeed, the most compelling criticisms of this White House have come from libertarians and anti-interventionists on both the left and right, on issues ranging from the dubiously-legal "kinetic military action" in Libya to the White House's willingness to order the assassination of an American citizen abroad.
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The third involved kidnapping private American citizens abroad.
"We take our obligation to assist US citizens abroad seriously".
It was one of the most brutal assaults on Chinese citizens abroad in recent years.
It has no death penalty and normally strongly opposes capital punishment for its citizens abroad.
A political nominee is asked what the guidelines are for assassinating American citizens abroad.
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