Yesterday, Monday 2nd of May 2011, news broke that America’s most wanted man, Osama Bin Laden, had been shot dead in a fire fight involving US commando’s in Pakistan. It was then reported that his body was buried at sea and treated with respect, a notion that I am glad to report was not only found strange by me.
According to the BBC the US confirmed his identity through DNA and facial recognition technology. The world slowly breathes a sigh of relief as the man who brought the US down on its knees with one of the worst terrorist attacks seen in Western history, has been killed.
9/11 devastated America with Osama Bin Laden taking the blame for killing almost 3000 people and creating a fear that World War 3 was imminent.
10 years later, they’ve done it; they finally managed to kill the Al Qaeda leader intent on a life of suicidal terrorist attacks. I mean it seems only fitting that the US bring down the same man that they trained ever so well and once upon a time where ever so happy on supplying with arms.
To me anyway it seems very convenient that within 12 hours they managed to locate the whereabouts of such a sought after man, kill him, formally identify him, and respectfully bury him at sea. Now of course the details are limited at the moment with it all just happening yesterday so I am basing my opinions on the facts supplied by the BBC, as it is one of the most trusted news sites about.
According to the Pakistani President, Asif Ali zardan, the fact that Osama Bin laden was found and killed in Abbottabad, 1km away from the Pakistan Military Academy, is not a sign of Pakistan’s failure to tackle terrorism. I believe others would be quick to disagree. Now whether or not they knew him to be there is a completely different matter and opinion, but I’m sure one that will be explored in days to come.
US officials justify his burial at sea with 2 reasons, the first being that they didn’t want his grave to become a shrine to other terrorists and secondly there was no time to negotiate with other countries to arrange a possible burial on land.
Now the US are indeed painting a very nice picture of themselves, as they aren’t just heroes who overcame the very scary man with the very scary terrorist group, but they are now proclaiming to have taken the Muslim religion into very serious grounds by respecting the fact that a Muslim body needs to be buried straight away unless a autopsy is required. Aren’t they just lovely. So after they killed him, they quickly arranged a burial for him by dropping him into the Arabian sea, which indeed has left us cynics of the world, with nothing but their word on what happened.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13261680http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13257330
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
And for anyone willing to look outside of the box
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Thank you for your blog Robyn. I was searching the internet yesterday and nobody was questioning Osama's death. There are a few sceptics out there today but I still haven't seen anything in the mainstream media. If you don't mind I'll refer to your blog when I eventually get round to writing about him.
ReplyDeleteHey Michael, thankkyou very much, well as per usual with topics like this there are so many questions that need answering and it is with no surprise that the US fail to get their story straight. yea thats fine :)
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