Please see Direct Action and Expediency: The Killing of Qassem Soleimani, and please also see Chapter 13 in Targeted Killings:  Law and Morality in An Asymmetrical World, Edited By Claire Finkelstein, Jens Ohlin and Andrew Altman (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2012), Warrant Based Targeting: Prosecution-Oriented Capture and Detention as Legal and Moral Alternatives to Targeted Killing, and see University of Pennsylvania Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) Site and see Department of Justice (DoJ) Targeted Killing (TK) “White Paper” and consider Drone blowback in Pakistan is a myth. Here’s why.