Seldom do states enjoy the advantage Israel had with Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal. Bereft of a constituency, he could be abducted, tried, and executed relatively easily. But even the US, dominating world public opinion, faces difficulties. Thus Julian Assange, of Wikileaks fame, has not been extradited to the US; but he has in effect been silenced at the Ecuador embassy in London. As for Edward Snowden, he has found asylum in Russia; but he is muzzled and his campaign halted. Both have ended as impotent exiles. As for the Islamists or those the US describes as such, extradition was impossible; they were kidnapped from various countries and tortured into confessions, but without public trials. At this point, American legality failed, just as it does for India. And so it was with Osama bin Laden, assassinated outright in a foreign country.