Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said Sunday that she would not have ordered the assassination of al Qaeda founder and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

“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,” Mrs. Stein told The Des Moines Register before her first campaign appearance in Iowa marking the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

During her speech, she said the attacks “provided a pretext for the wrong wars, which have only gotten us into more trouble.”

“What we should have done is declare a crime against humanity and pursued it, pursued the attackers and gotten the intelligence about who was behind this,” Mrs. Stein said.

She also criticized U.S. foreign policy following the 9/11 attacks and called both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump “warmongers.”

If elected, Mrs. Stein promised a “targeted” approach to tracking down terrorists and bringing them to justice for crimes against humanity, The Register reported.

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