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  >A White House National Security Council spokesperson strongly condemned “all targeted assassinations in Afghanistan”

And they say Americans don't do irony!

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Bin Laden was assassinated in Pakistan if that's what you're referring to.

And countless other terrorist or suspected terrorists( or just bystanders) were assassinated by dronestrikes, so this is probably what he or she was referring to.

What is your point? What makes the statement hollow is that the US does it all the time, just not that often in Afghanistan (that we know of).

Just as a fun fact because you didn't specify which bin Laden: Osama's son, Hamza bin Laden, was actually assassinated in Afghanistan by the US.

I wasn't trying to imply that there was no irony, just pointing out that the most obvious US Afghanistan campaign most wanted person assassination took place elsewhere. But with what you and others have pointed out it sounds like Osama Bin Laden isn't necessarily the only obvious example.

I assumed they were referring to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani last year [0], but there are plenty of less publicized examples as well. Technically that was in Iraq, but I think it's the method the US is objecting to, not the location.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Solei...

Guessing they were referring to these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drone_strikes_in_Afgha...

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