The primary target killed was Qaed Salim Sinan al Harethi, also known as Abu Ali.
On August 30, the LeJ target killed Zulfiqar Hussain Naqvi, a judge in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, along with his driver and security guard.
Three days later, it exploded another atomic bomb over Nagasaki, slightly off target, killing 40,000 immediately and dooming tens of thousands of others.
In the 1980s three 335-kiloton warheads were installed on some Minuteman IIIs, along with a more accurate guidance system that gave them a "hard-target kill" potential to destroy reinforced ICBM silos and command bunkers in the Soviet Union.
The defence department lawyer Jeh Johnson in February referred to the so-called "targeted kill" programme, saying it pursued legitimate military targets overseas.
He described how elaborate plans were made to pick out civilian targets, kill them and then make their deaths look like they were insurgents.
Targeted Killing in International Law is a book about the legality of targeted killing, written by Nils Melzer.
Targeted killing falls into that category.
