Americans celebrate as the death of Osama Bin Laden, US’s most wanted man, is announced. A stealthy operation that had been in the planning for over 6 months led to a raid of his mansion home outside Islamabad and two shots in the head.
His body was quickly taken away by U.S. forces for a DNA test to confirm his identity. Obama wanted evidence that he was dead, and evidence is what he got. Bin Laden’s DNA was matched with that of one of his sisters who died in Boston and whose brain was kept by the United States.
The congratulations and applause for Obama and the US military are pouring in. However, there are those political commentators who feel that it is undignified to be jubilant. Many civilians have died in US’s attempt to capture Bin Laden. His regimes have not been overturned and the west now lie in the terror of revenge attacks.
However, after ten years of chasing a man around the mountains of Afghanistan, one can hardly blame the Americans for celebrating.
On this day, my thoughts are not with the triumphant military but with all those who has lost their lives in the fight against Bin Laden.
Bunty