Ok I woke up to hear this absolutely unbelievable news – Osama Bin Laden is dead. All the local and international channels are running their special transmission on Osama Bin Laden’s termination.
There is this never ending repetition of a speech by Osama’s brother – Obama Bin Barrack that America was able to kill Osama under a military operation under his direct orders in Abbottabad – Pakistan. The American special security officers had confirmed news that Osama was hiding in that compound for quite some time.
Apparently, it was the perfect time for Obama to conduct this military operation and finish off their very own CIA agent, Osama now. Yes, interesting thing is that the US elections are very near and for Americans this could be a huge victory that Obama managed to kill the Al-Qaeda leader. Otherwise, Obama has been a disgusting president who did nothing constructive for the US or the world in all these years.
The critics and analysts, however, feel that there is a question mark if Obama will be re-elected because he will be judged on how the US economy performed in his tenure rather than the national security platform. But can we forget that Bush was re-elected also when he ended up capturing Saddam Hussein. But many smart Americans feel that it is fishy that it took USA such a long time to finally get Osama is shocking. Most of the Arabian and Muslim countries are quiet as they feel there will be retaliation from Taliban.
However, I am with Musharraf as he spoke this morning that killing Osama is just a victory in a big battle but the war on terrorism will continue and smart measures need to be taken to handle the retaliation. As it is, Osama did his work by creating huge pockets of trained warriors in the form of Taliban and they are scattered in plenty around the world. Thus, I don’t feel the world is safer with Osama’s death.
Also the fact, that they just buried his body in the sea is quite peculiar. It only raises eye brows. Perhaps they never killed him and have kept him in a dark cell or have told him that he did his job well and now he can enjoy the rest of his life in an exotic island with another identity. As it is, as per the famous conspiracy theory, Osama was only the creation of USA to enter territories that it could not easily enter.
Thus, the war on terrorism will continue. Taliban will retaliate. Pakistan itself will remain under fire. Our lowly President and Prime Minister didn’t even have the ball to conduct the operations with Pakistani soldiers, instead the entire operation was carried out by US military on our soil. Today, is not a peaceful day for Pakistan. City situations are tough, there are traffic jams, mobile phones are jammed. All the shops and commercial areas have been closed already in fear. Anyway, this is mostly due to local issues between two political parties.
For us life was not secured and life is not secured with or without Osama.
