Killing of Bin Laden – the American way
The successful operation inside Pakistan that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special forces gives President Obama the cover to disentangle from the predicament of a massive war in Afghanistan.
The mission was achieved and the outcome was clear this time. The killing of Bin Laden has been a declared and an embarrassing target for the American campaign in Afghanistan that has been going on for more than 10 years.
The production of the news and how to relay it is important for the U.S. in relation to any international event it accomplishes.
And it seems that U.S. military and political leaderships become nervous when facing decisions regarding how to release news related to big events like the killing of Bin Laden. They usually ignore the standards required for the issuing of such news.
The news about Bin Laden’s death was released and accompanied by a report on how he was buried at sea according to Islamic tradition. News agencies focused on the aspect of burial.
Hours later, Islamic scholars started airing their voices in Azhar, Cairo, and other places, saying that it was not right to bury a human being in the depth of the sea unless there is no other alternative.
Was the news of Bin Laden’s burial at sea meant to provoke hundreds of millions of Muslims who are still divided on Osama Bin Laden?
The division among Muslims on Bin Laden would not have been there had it not been for the two ferocious U.S. wars, one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq. The victims of these wars have been used as the bait for American bullets sponsored by the governments in Kabul and Baghdad.
It seems the issue of “jurisprudence necessity” was used by American spokespersons to justify this kind of burial. They said they were compelled to do so because there was no country willing to receive his body.
This is a pretext as there is no evidence that Washington had contacted all the countries in the world to see whether they would accept to provide a proper burial for him.
They buried him at sea. They were quick to make that announcement and now it is hard for them to retrieve his body.
The other contentious issue relates to U.S. saying that the target of the operation was to kill and not capture Bin Laden at a time the whole world knows that seizing just one of al-Qaeda operatives is like a treasure of useful security information.
How much useful it would have been had the U.S. captured Bin Laden?
Later they said the troops could not seize him alive.
Then abruptly they announced the operation was solely carried out by U.S. troops and that Pakistan had no say in it.
And when the issue of violating the sovereignty of an independent state surfaced, they quickly added there was coordination with Islam Abad.
Everything was done in accordance with the America way that is characterized with blunders and stupidity.
One reason might be the event was bigger than the potential of U.S. administration to issue statements.
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