Osama Dead - Victory in Sight

Perhaps no one really believesthis or understands it yet, but the manner of Bin Laden’s death is also veryimportant.  With it, just as with thedeath of Che Guevara, a legend also dies, ignomously in a short fire fighttrapped in his den at the hands of a US combat unit.  This will end the allure of martyrdom formillions of young Muslim boys because the end was both bad and the outcome ofBin Laden’s war on the USAso clearly final.

It has been made clear that hisact of terror was another exercise in outright suicide, even though he put it off for adecade.

The organization has been gonefor some time now and only finds expression through copy cats.  I suspect even that will largely end now.  After all, the Islamic world has far biggerissues to address in the challenge of eliminating dictatorships andestablishing democratic forms.  That willdraw down all their energies.

So most will agree that it is tooearly to declare the war of terror either over or won, we can expect the threatlevel to drop off sharply if not completely. I think imitating Bin Laden’s fate will hold little attraction now hehas been killed and thrown in the ocean to feed the fishes.

I may be wrong and optimistic,but I do think it is over but for a little mopping up which just became mucheasier.

The real counter to radical Islamfor Muslims everywhere has been the actions of Al Qaeda, just as the counter tofascism globally was the actions of Hitler. What is rising now are Muslim societies truly inoculated against suchradicalism.  This is a reason for realoptimism.

Bin Laden's Death Climaxes Decade of Detective Work

Monday, 02 May 2011 10:19 AM

By Henry J. Reske

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/BinLaden-detective-al-Qaida/2011/05/02/id/394784?s=al&promo_code=C2F8-1

The effort of U.S. forces to find and bring Osama bin Laden to justicefor murdering thousands of innocent Americans was years in the making and oftenmarked by dead ends and frustration. However, the tide turned in August whenbin Laden’s trusted courier was located in a secure and large compound just 35miles from the Pakistani capital, The New York Times reported. 

Intelligence operatives surmised that such a compound was not designed for acourier, no matter how trusted, and spent weeks monitoring the site inAbbottabad before determining that the al-Qaida leader was the main resident.The trigger was pulled Sunday and he was shot in the head while he tried toresist the assault, the Times reported.

American military and intelligence forces chased bin Laden for nearly a decadeafter losing him at Tora Bora, in the mountains of Afghanistan. The courier firstbecame known from detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,four years ago, according to the Times.

The years of sleuthing led to the million-dollar mansion in Abbottabad, set ona hilltop and surrounded by 12-foot-high concrete walls topped with barbedwire. The compound was built to hide bin Laden in 2005, the Times reported.

President Barack Obama began a series of meetings in March to plan for theoperation, the Times reported. The meetings continued even as the White Houseworked to deal with a possible government shutdown over the budget. The finalmeeting took place Friday morning, when the president signed off on theoperation before traveling to Alabamato view the devastating tornado damage, according to the Times.