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I read that USA and Pakistan have an agreement whereby the CIA are permitted to operate in Pakistan, and that this mission was conducted by the CIA, thus negating the need to inform Pakistani intelligence beforehand. This would, if true, make the operation to capture Bin Laden legal.
However from my recollection of reading international law it's absolutely illegal to engage in targetted assasination, so if the operation was to kill him then agreement or not, this would be an illegal act. This is why they must say they gave him a chance to surrender. It's the "he's coming right for us" defence.