Saturday, May 7, 2011

A few questions relating to Osama bin Laden’s death


  1. Osama bin Laden is believed to have been employed by the CIA during the 1980s with direct financial, tactical, strategic and physical support of all kinds to create an army of men to fight the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (which itself was illegal, inhuman, unethical and unjust). Political Islam took shape to provide bonding cover to men recruited in this war apart from the financial support their families received to give up their men for this war. There is documented evidence to support these claims. Yet the USA administration has never for once apologized to the world at large for nurturing this man and making him capable of what he was to do in the later years against their interests when they turned the heat on him. Why?
  2. Can one employ the best Chartered Accountants in the world with an objective to understand the amount of revenues earned by the American, English, French, Australian and German military engineering, equipment supplying and contracting companies directly and indirectly after 9/11 in the name of providing security to its own people, going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq to decimate the causative factors of international modern terrorism and later to rebuild and reconstruct these countries from a heap of rubbles that they had been converted into during the war because the governments of these first world countries continuously exaggerated threats of terrorism and terrorists to hysteric levels?
  3. It is being informed that a detainee at Guantanamo Bay had leaked the details of Osama bin Laden’s courier to his abode at Abottabad. Could this be a ploy to re-legitimize the concept and style of Guantanamo Bay?
  4. The technology, reach, manpower, money, manipulative skills and collaboration that are available with the USA in its war on terror is so huge that it is practically impossible to gauge their length and breadth. Yet it takes so many years to find an ageing and ailing fugitive. Doesn’t it sound a bit strange? Immediately after the death of Osama bin Laden there have been painstaking announcements made by the American dignitaries of state that one should not underestimate the avenging capabilities of Al Qaida and how much of a potential threat to the world could such efforts be. This was as if to remind us that we should not ask them to stop their wars and war-games relating to counter-terrorism now that Osama bin Laden is dead. No?
  5. Is there any court of law in any country (modern or despotic) that has established the crimes of Osama bin Laden? (Lest somebody should believe I am a fan of Osama bin Laden I must clarify that I believe he has been given an image so powerful that there is always an inclination to relate to him outside the domain of reality like you would treat mythical heroes and villains. I am more inclined to believe: he and his cohorts as a team form one head of a two-headed serpent – one head feeding on the other. The other head belongs to his creator and masters and their cohorts.)
  6. Don’t we do away with all our civilization traits when we celebrate and delightfully glee at somebody’s death by murder even if he is allegedly the biggest criminal on earth?
  7. The timing of the killing (initiating the presidential election campaign in the USA) and its style and later the flip-flop clarifications including the haste with which the DNA matching and the funeral were conducted are bound to raise uncomfortable questions for the USA. How many deaths would Osama have to die in the long run? Who will wear the face of Osama in future? 
  8. The modern world has spun a tragic helix comprising conflicting strains of wars and terrorism. The foot soldiers on both sides continue to die at each others hands while the top brass espouses causes and trades with the existence of life on earth. Is there a way out?

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