А Соглашения Женевской конвенции и Гааги у вас тоже вызывают недоумение?..There is Geneva convention and Hague agreements - and presidential ban - on assassinations of foreign leaders - religious and others.  So it is not about it being barbaric - it's about this conduct being plain illegal.'The U.S. government was the first to formulate a legal code of military conduct that was to be issued to the troops in the field.27 During the Civil War, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton solicited guidance and suggestions from a variety of scholars as to what form these regulations should take, but left the task of writing them to Doctor Francis Lieber, a professor at Columbia University.28 Lieber’s code was reviewed, amended, and finally issued by President Abraham Lincoln in [*PG7]1863 as The U.S. Army’s General Orders #100. Five thousand copies were printed and distributed to the officers of the armies of both the Union and the Confederacy.29 Article 148 of the Order states:The law of war does not allow proclaiming either an individual belonging to the hostile army, or a citizen, or a subject of the hostile government, an outlaw, who may be slain without trial by any captor, any more than the modern law of peace allows such international outlawry; on the contrary, it abhors such outrage. The sternest retaliation should follow the murder committed in consequence of such proclamation, made by whatever authority. Civilized nations look with horror upon offers of rewards for the assassination of enemies as relapses into barbarism.30General Orders #100 further provided that soldiers may be killed as long as they are not individually singled out, or their deaths achieved as a result of a bounty placed upon their head.31 The most important difference of the code, however, was the substitution of outlawry for treachery as the definition of assassination. Within ten years, however, this concept was widely adopted, making the Lieber Code a model for the rules of war of other nations.32"....etc.etc.etc