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Obama confirms: Osama bin Laden is dead; his body is in U.S. custody Ten years after masterminding the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, has been killed and his body is in American hands, President Obama told the nation in a dramatic late Sunday announcement from the White House. “Justice has been done,” Mr. Obama said in a somber speech from the White House’s East Room. “His demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity,” the president said. He said bin Laden was killed in a compound inside Pakistan, where he apparently had been for months. Mr. Obama said he first was briefed last August on intelligence suggesting bin Laden’s location, and said he authorized the attack last week. It was carried out earlier Sunday. “A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability,” Mr. Obama said. “After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.” Bin Laden’s death is the biggest victory the U.S. has scored in the decade-old war on terror, and comes at a time when Mr. Obama is trying to chart a way forward on the war in Afghanistan. |
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J’espere que les Pakistanais furent avises que les EU allaient faire une operation de commando sur leur territoire. Malgre tout, le gouvernement en place va avoir une revolte sur les bras. Imaginez: Un commando americains, en sol pakistanais, et qui tuent OBL…L’hydre a perdu une tete, mais elle est toujours vivante. Le monde libre ne devrait pas se rejouir trop vite.
Enfin, sa mort ne change pas grand chose. Ben Laden et autres sont ceux qui ont gagné, le gouvernement américain à profité de cette guerre pour accroître l’Étatisme et restreindre les liberté une fois de plus.
La page n’est pas tournée, ce n’est pas une victoire pour le monde libre, juste un semblant.
Sherwood: Mauvaise idée. Tout porte à croire que des éléments haut-placés du gouvernement pakistanais et des services secrets coopèrent avec Al-Qaeda.
IL faudrait maintenant songer à cesser d’être naïf et à considérer le gouvernement pakistanais comme un ennemi.
Qu’il nous rembourse ou payons nous!
Excellent article de Dershowitz sur le flagrant double standard qu’on note suite à l’assassinat ciblé de Ben Laden (rappelez-vous l’assassinat de Yassin à Gaza…):
THOSE who oppose the very concept of targeted killings should be railing against the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Among others, these critics include officials in Britain, France, Italy, Russia, the EU, Jordan and the United Nations. (…) The French foreign ministry has declared that “extrajudicial executions contravene international law, and are unacceptable.”(…)
And Kofi Annan has declared that “extrajudicial killings are violations of international law.”
Yet none of these nations, groups or individuals have criticized the targeted killing of Osama bin Laden by the US! The reason is obvious. All the condemnations against targeted killing were directed at one country. Israel, of course.
Israel developed the concept of targeted killings, and used it effectively against the “Osama bin Ladens” of Hamas, who directed terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, killing and wounding far more Israelis (as a percentage of Israel’s population) than the number of Americans killed by bin Laden. It was when Israel managed to kill the head of Hamas that the international community, with the striking exception of the United States, decided that targeted killing was illegal and immoral.
But now that it has been used against an enemy of Britain, France, Italy and other European nations, suddenly targeted killing is not only legal and moral, it is praiseworthy (except, of course, to Hamas, which immediately condemned the US killing of bin Laden).
Well, the truth is that when used properly, targeted killing has always been deserving of approval – even when employed by Israel, a nation against which a double standard always seems to be applied.
Indeed the use of targeted killings by Israel has been closely regulated by its Supreme Court, and permitted only against terrorists who are actively engaged in ongoing acts of terrorism. In the United States, on the other hand, every decision to use this tactic is made by the president alone, without any form of judicial review.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=219239