Yes, that is true. If we had put a JDAM down his noggin, that would be fine - target command and control. But, the guy was in a bathrobe. Under the law of war I don't think it is OK to just shoot the guy.
Of course we have no idea what really happened. For all I know, Osama is in the brig of a US Aircraft Carrier engaged in conversations with professionals. However, if he was standing in his bedroom, unarmed and asked to surrender, and said "La" Arabic for "no," I don't know that shooting the guy was lawful.
Don't get me wrong. I'm perfectly at peace with the idea of the demons of hell picking at his entrails for all eternity (metaphoric of course), it's the effect on our democratic institutions of this barbaric religious war which is being waged against the non Muslim civilization.
