{"id":5692,"date":"2011-05-18T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2012-12-12T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T15:00:43","slug":"why-say-that-osama-was-unarmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5692","title":{"rendered":"Why say that Osama was unarmed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t understand why the Obama administration had to say that Osama Bin Laden was unarmed<\/a> when he was killed, that he was not threatening the life of the soldiers who were in the compound.\u00a0Why feed the terrorists with stories that they can use for recruitment purposes? Why not just say that he died in the operation without giving more details than that?<\/p>\n

Terrorism is an industry and its main input is angry young men. USA has to realize that certain moves, like Abu Gharb<\/a> publicized pictures<\/a>, Guantanamo tortures<\/a>, air bombings in Fallujah, killing of thousands of innocent civilians in the search terrorists in Afghanistan, and now saying that Osama Bin Laden was unarmed, all these are the stories that feed the terrorists at their key moment, recruitment.<\/p>\n

If the purpose is to disengage with terrorism USA should not make it easier for terrorist recruiters to get new people who hate USA. \u00a0Al Qaeda\u2019s<\/a> life used to be much harder when all they had to say was \u201cThe infidels are in the holy land so let\u2019s go and murder thousands of them when they go to work\u201d. \u00a0Let\u2019s fight them without giving them arguments to multiply and grow. \u00a0USA should study the many terrorist movements in Latin America and Europe that ended up completely extinguished. \u00a0It was not revenge that did it. \u00a0It was careful management of public opinion combined with effective police and judicial efforts. \u00a0While my preference would have been to put Osama Bin Laden on trial I can also agree with those who said that capturing him would have made terrorists do all sorts of hijackings and threats to public safety. \u00a0But if that is what drove the administration to decide to kill him, then why decrease public safety by confessing that he was murdered and making terrorists even more angry?.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t understand why the Obama administration had to say that Osama Bin Laden was unarmed when he was killed, that he was not threatening the life of the soldiers who were in the compound.\u00a0Why feed the terrorists with stories that they can use for recruitment purposes? Why not just say that he died in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,13],"tags":[277,734],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-micro","category-usa","tag-politics","tag-terrorism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t