On March 6, 1988, a woman named Mairead Farrell and two companions were shot and killed on Gibraltar by elements of the British SAS. The three were members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and they were there to plant a car bomb at a public ceremony in front of the Governor's residence. Nevertheless, the killing was a cold-blooded business. Witnesses said that the agents said nothing, not even identifying themselves, and the three victims were unarmed. It raised a considerable ruckus in international law. Extrajudicial killing, even in that troubled time, was considered worthy of scrutiny and protest. And that was long before Vladimir Putin's Russia started playing whack-a-mole with plutonium and ricin all over the world. Now, of course, the United States has gotten into the game

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