After the successful US Navy SEAL team raid on Osama Bin Laden's "secret compound" near Islamabad, Pakistan, is this finally yhe beginning of the end of Al Qaeda?
By: Ringo Bones
With US President Barack Obama's obligatory "victory speech" announcing the death of Osama Bin Laden after the successful US Navy SEAL team raid on his highly fortified mansion near Islamabad, Pakistan, many had now wondered whether this event will mark the beginning of the end of Bin Laden's famed global terror network called Al Qaeda? Sadly, Al Qaeda can easily go on without a figure-head like Bin Laden.
Though it didn't stop the midnight jubilant celebration of Americans in the Pennsylvania Avenue and the death of Osama Bin Laden means that President Obama is now spared of making that somewhat awkward and uncomfortable speech explaining why Osama Bin Laden is still at large as America celebrates the 10th Anniversary of the tragic September 11, 2001 Terror Attacks. At least this will be one of those globally historic moments that I will be explaining to my descendants on where I was when President Obama made the now iconic "victory speech" announcing the death of Osama Bin Laden.
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First it was "Hitler Ist Tot!" now its "Bin Laden Ist Tot!". Can you feel the worldwide sense of relief in the air?
The events surrounding the capture and death of Osama Bin Laden is a strange one indeed. Having a million-dollar hideout in the relatively impoverished section of Abbottabad, Pakistan that looks like one of those highly-reinforced concrete tourist hotel facilities in the Philippines designed to withstand a 600-megaton H-Bomb blast. Worse still, Abbottabad, Pakistan is an army garrison town where Osama Bin Laden's reinforced concrete lair is only 1/3 of a mile away from Pakistan's prestigious military academy - i.e. the country's equivalent of West Point. And then Osama Bin Laden's remains undergone a "burial at sea" from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson after undergoing Islamic Last Rites.
Sadly, the death of Osama Bin Laden will do little to end the on-going discrimination of the Uyghur diaspora in the Philippines by the ethnic Han Chinese who seems to be beholden to the Beijing government. I mean why do we have to fly to Hong Kong's trendy hi-fi shops with the additional 500 US dollars in airfares every time we upgrade our hi-fi rigs?
I think Pakistan's ISI is protecting Osama Bin Laden. Imagine Osama Bin Laden hiding in the Pakistan army garrison town of Abbottabad? Reminds me of a cat burglar living next door to a police precinct.
Does anyone still remember that it was former US President Ronald Reagan that made Osama Bin Laden's terror network a reality? After all, Reagan used to say that Bin Laden's Al Qaeda are the "moral equivalent of America's Founding Fathers".
Remember the capture and execution of Osama Bin laden is just the start. A little over one thousand years of Islamophobia can't simply disappear overnight, right?
I wonder if the Pakistan government's ties with regional Islamic extremists goes back to the days of Zia Ul-Haq? Speaking of Ronald Reagan making Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda global terror network a working reality, I really doubt whether Ronald Reagan - the same person who tried to redefine pornography via a 1,960-page big blue book back in July, 1986 - has the foresight to see the long-term consequence of his actions by supporting a Saudi billionaire mass-murderer named Osama Bin Laden.
Ronald Reagan and Pornography? Isn't this a 1980s era Jello Biafra punk rock side project? Anyway, I just hope that the History Channel, PBS or the Beeb/BBC will be making a documentary about how Reagan, Zia Ul-Haq and others empowered Osama Bin Laden during that crucial point in history in the late 1980s and enabled Al Qaeda to become a global threat in the late 20th and for most of the 21st Century.
Another weird fact, Osama Bin Laden's death caused the prices of oft-speculated commodities like crude oil to plunge. Even Aryan Nation representative Sarah Palin thanked George "Dubya" Bush for killing Bin Laden as opposed to President Obama.
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