Leon de Winter
Well, the the Navy Seals are also very effective at targeted killings. Is the USA safer after Bin Laden’s death? Certainly not. But it feels rather good.
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/05/02/condemn-this-awful-act-of-illegal-american-violence/
Alan M. Dershowitz:
The decision to target and kill Osama Bin Laden is being applauded by all decent people. Approval to capture or kill this mass-murdering terrorist leader was given by Presidents Obama and Bush. It was the right decision, both morally and legally. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/04/osama-dead-and-targeted-killing-vindicated/
Salman Rushdie
This time the facts speak too loudly to be hushed up. Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man, was found living at the end of a dirt road 800 yards from the Abbottabad military academy, Pakistan’s equivalent of West Point or Sandhurst, in a military cantonment where soldiers are on every street corner, just about 80 miles from the Pakistani capital Islamabad. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-05-02/salman-rushdie-pakistans-deadly-game/
Christopher Hitchens
It seems thinkable that he truly believed his own mad propaganda, often adumbrated on tapes and videos, especially after the American scuttle from Somalia. The West, he maintained, was rotten with corruption and run by cabals of Jews and homosexuals. It had no will to resist. It had become feminized and cowardly. One devastating psychological blow and the rest of the edifice would gradually follow the Twin Towers in a shower of dust.
http://www.slate.com/id/2292687
In that same speech, Obama stated that “Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader” because, according to Obama, by definition, a (good) Muslim cannot be a “mass murderer of Muslims.” But this is simply not true. Muslims specialize in murdering other Muslims all the livelong day.
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/04/was-osama-a-typical-husband-and-father/
Meanwhile In Old Sick Germany:
Die alles entscheidende Frage dabei ist, ob die Navy Seals die Villa in Abbottabad mit der Absicht gestürmt haben, Bin Laden zu erschießen oder ihn festzunehmen und vor ein Gericht zu stellen. Dumm nur, dass genau diese Frage für die Weltöffentlichkeit mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit niemals abschließend geklärt werden wird. http://www.welt.de/fernsehen/article13334660/Bin-Ladens-Tod-und-der-Vergleich-mit-Adolf-Hitler.html
