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Definition of Targeted killing
1. Noun. (context: warfare) The intentional killing by a government or its agents of a civilian or "unlawful combatant" who is not in that government's custody, and who is taking part in an armed conflict or terrorism, whether by bearing arms or otherwise, and is thus regarded by the government as having lost the immunity from being targeted that he or she would otherwise have under the Geneva Conventions.(reference-book pages=74 first=Eric last=Patterson title=Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats publisher=Lexington Books year=2009 isbn=978-0739119013)(reference-book year=2009 pages=227-228 title=The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape: The Day that Changed Everything? first=Matthew J. last=Morgan publisher=Palgrave Macmillan isbn=0230608388)(reference-book year=2008 pages=150 first= Amos N. last=Guiora title=Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation publisher=Oxford University Press, USA isbn=0195340310) ¹
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