BTW: No saying it's right or wrong, but it's definitely something else than justice or a Curt-order.
Honestly I don't understand how Americans still trust our news sources today.
All I have been able to find was 1 French newspaper publishing what it claimed was a French intelligence report that simply noted that Saudi intelligence agencies believe bin Laden had died in 2006. The report seems to have been immediately noted by the French president as not being confirmed. Furhtermore, in 2010 a recording of bin Laden threatening France was confirmed as genuine by the French Foreign Ministry, showing that French intelligence services still considered it at least possible that he was still alive.
So you can stop with the "justice angle" on that one.