Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said Sunday that she would have taken a different approach in response to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

In an interview before her first campaign appearance in Iowa, Stein said she would not have assassinated al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden, the Des Moines Register reports.

“I think assassinations … they’re against international law to start with and to that effect, I think I would not have assassinated Osama bin Laden but would have captured him and brought him to trial,” Stein told the Register.



She added that the attacks were a catalyst for conflicts overseas that should have been handled in a more "targeted" manner.

"[The attacks on 9/11] provided a pretext for the wrong wars, which have only gotten us into more trouble,” Stein said.

During her rally remarks, Stein called Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump "warmongers." Her campaign platform states that she would like to cut military spending by "at least 50 percent."

“I think all evidence [for who was responsible for the attacks] certainly points to bin Laden, but the 9/11 attackers had assistance and funding and bin Laden had assistance and funding,” Stein said. “What we should have done is declare [the 9/11 attacks] a crime against humanity and pursued it, pursued the attackers and gotten the intelligence about who was behind this.”