On Monday, the 2nd of May 2011, the United States of America reported the death of the Osama Bin Laden, the founder of the popular terrorist organisation named Al Qaeda. USA president Barack Obama officially announced to US civilians and the rest of the world that Bin Laden had been found and killed by US special troops in a compound outside the town of Abbottabad in Pakistan.
Bin Laden is said to have masterminded famous September-11-2001 crashing of the World Trade Centre which claimed closed to 3000 lives. Osama’s Al Qaeda is also reported to have caused a huge havoc and mayhem in other countries around the world such as the bombing in Kenya which killed approximately 300 people a few years back.
Americans civilians celebrated and danced outside the White House as a confident Obama made the announcement which he called one of the greatest achievements in USA’s history. The UK as usual did not waste time echoing Obama’s sentiments and many other heads of state followed suit congratulating the world’s economic powerhouse for what they phrased ‘a job well done’.
As the US and the rest of the world rejoice the death of Bin Laden, the question that comes to my mind is has human become so heartless to a point of celebrating the loss of a human soul? My varsity mates almost chopped my head telling me Bin Laden deserved to die as he has “killed” many innocent souls in his spell on planet earth. Martin Luther King Jnr was quoted saying “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.” I strongly share Luther King Jnr’s sentiments and I believe that the US should be charged of murder and for invasion of a sovereign state (Pakistan).
United States appear to have turned a blind eye to the fact that Bin Laden was just a leader in a terrorist organisation comprising of huge membership, which will definitely not let the killing of Bin Laden be water under the bridge. A Pakistani popular terrorist group Taliban has already pointed out that they are going to retaliate against the US government for killing Bin Laden and illegally raiding their country.
The whereabouts of the Taliban remain unknown, which is something the most powerful nation in the world and its affiliates should be worried of given the threatening track record of Taliban as far as terrorism is concerned. USA has touched the snake in the tail as it is now facing a possibility of being attacked by 2 of the most dangerous terrorist organisations in the globe (Al Qaeda and Taliban). It is interesting to observe that the Al Qaeda head might be killed, but the rest of Al Qaeda members are unknown, in fact nobody knows what plan or strategy they might be currently up to.
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