Newspapers "celebrate" Osama Bin Laden's death
When US president Barack Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden (OBL) on national television, he claimed “justice has been done”. The question is of course: who’s justice? Certainly not justice by international standards. If you look at the way things unfolded, there are many questions one can raise with his course of action.
In fact: in this case the “justice” that was served was nothing else but revenge. Revenge for 9/11 2001 and the ghost chase the US government was on since 9/11.
Don’t get me wrong: I totally understand revenge and I don’t shed a tear about OBL’s death, but governments need to be above revenge.
We do not know all the circumstances yet: it may not have been possible to take Osama alive. But the few details we do know only raise more questions.
Then there are the many legal implications. According to statements van the US, Osama was killed (executed one might say) even though he was unarmed and not resisting. Still he was shot? The SEAL team that was involved in the action was able to wound a woman in the leg that came between them and Osama, but they were not able to capture an unarmed Osama?
Not to mention that the whole operation took place on Pakistani soil and the Pakistani government wasn’t informed by the US in any way until the operation was under way. People say that since Pakistan hasn’t protested against this, it’s ok. But reality is off course that they probably are too embarrassed by the fact that public enemy number 1 was living right under their noses.
The bottom-line is that no one should be outside the protection of the law. After the end of the second world war even the biggest Nazi war criminals like Adolf Eichman and Hermann Göring got a fair trial. Even Saddam Hussein got his trial.
The fact Obama has decided not to disclose any (photo) material proving Obama’s dead, is grounds for widespread speculation and feeds conspiracy theories. Even though some Al-Qaeda “officials” have said that OBL is dead as well.
Off course we can’t forget that Osama bin Laden took full credit for and supported terrorist attacks around the world inspired others to commit such acts, but again: if we look at what happened to (war) criminals in the past, we can’t condone a government sanctioned execution can we?
Think of the implications. No one should be above the law.
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I had the same discussion in my family, what scares me most dude is that people stop thinking for themselves because the president of the USA says so. They stop thinking about basic things: why was he dropped a ouple of hundred kilometers away to the south in the sea? Why was he shot dead AFTER the gunfire, why not just wound him? Seal team 6 is not incompetent so the most important question is why did USA wanted him dead?