Quote Originally Posted by Arche
As for having a right to take his life, well if it was a soldier, then as it's a war and he's the enemy, they have just as much right as American soldiers taking Iraqi lives. If he wasn't a soldier (I can't seem to see whether it specifies this or not on those two sites though), then no, perhaps they shouldn't.
Both articles make it clear that he was a private contractor, not a soldier or even a civilian employed by the Pentagon (paragraph 3 in the FOX News article, paragraphs 12 and 15 in the CNN article).