(Los Angeles Times) Doyle McManus - When (al Qaeda member) Harithi's SUV was in open Yemini countryside, an unmanned Predator aircraft coming from Djibouti in Africa launched a Hellfire missile and killed six men, including Harithi. Even though the CIA wasn't sure who else was in the car, the customary rules of armed conflict say that anyone sitting next to a legitimate target such as Harithi was, in effect, accepting the risk of imminent death. "Having defined this as an act against a military adversary and applying the standards of international law, this was within the legal rights of a nation at war," said Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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