Bin Laden killed by US forces
National security isn’t the area we usually cover on this blog, but some news is just too big not to mention. Not that you don’t know it by now anyway, but:
Osama bin Laden, the long-hunted al-Qaeda leader and chief architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, was killed by U.S. forces Sunday in what officials described as a surgical raid on his luxury hideout in Pakistan.
In a rare Sunday night address from the East Room of the White House, President Obama said a small team of U.S. personnel attacked a compound Sunday in Pakistan’s Abbottabad Valley, where bin Laden had been hiding since at least last summer. During a firefight, U.S. team killed bin Laden, 54, and took custody of his body in what Obama called “the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al-Qaeda.”
It’s been a long time coming, and though bin Laden had not been so much in the news these past few years as he was in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the significance of the moment was undiminished.
I hope people would start to look at the other side. But this is more relieving, to blame an individual than to blame Al-Qaeda and conspiracies which are more complicated to understand for most of the people. I would rather forget this as soon as possible. I don’t want to belong to the groups of a simple minded people who see this as victory.
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