i believe only cuba and iran are the only 2 countries left without a central bank, research… the assassinations will keep coming.

First, it assumes Al Queda is not only a functional terrorist organization, but that they are a large and highly stuctured, sophisticated, multinational organization capable of orchestrating global jihad against the west. Despite there being little to no evidence of any actual membership or real links to any other islamic militants anywhere.

It assumes that a single piece of ‘evidence’, widely criticised as fraudulent (the Osama videotape admission), and released without confirmation from Al Queda many years after 9/11, is an indictment of Bin Laden in what has otherwise been consistantly denied from the beginning.

From this point of assumption the rest of the opinions are forged, though even had these opinions been fact there is still a strong case for moral bankruptcy and anti-democratic logic in your argument.

Assuming Bin Laden was all you say he was and the same was true of Al Queda, and the US is all it says it is and the same of their military… it is not acceptable that this advanced military monstrosity led by the self proclaimed moral compass of the free world compromise in the final hour of their greatest moral victory!

How dare you, as a writer with responsibilities, even suggest to me that after 10 years of the world hearing nothing but how moral, just and free we are in the west compared to our enemies, we are now supposed to believe that at the 11th hour when we had that one chance to prove our moral superiority once and for all, we instead chose to execute a group of unarmed men… and that is ok because revealing the truth about them in a trial would provoke anger???

This is absolutely ridiculous and insulting.

Your suggestion that money should play any part in the matter is idiotic, whats millions of dollars to a country who offered a $40 million dollar reward for his capture in the first place? And we know exactly where he would go – guantanamo bay…

He was killed because he was not who we think he was, and because his prosecution would have been extremely embarrassing due to legalities and lack of evidence.

For a country who basically invented the present idea of Bin Laden and Al Queda, started wars and killed countless thousands using them as justification, it would be integrity suicide to show the world anything else.

You show me a single piece of information, that doesn’t come directly from the mouth of Bin Laden’s enemies, that even suggests he HAD a network of followers let alone made them swear an oath to him personally.

Whether US law forbids the targeted assasination of heads of state or not, the CIA has a long and documented track record of assasination and support for terrorism throughout the world so it’s irrelevant.
What matters more is why?

This is what we DO know.

* The US trained, armed and funded islamic militants in Afghanistan in the 80′s to draw them into a proxy war with the USSR. Osama Bin Laden was among those militants.

* Osama was also trained in the US.

* Many US officials in high places have close personal and business relationships with the Bin Laden family, and have had for decades.

* The US has an extremely appeasing, strategically imperative and profitable relationship with the Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia.

* The CIA and ISI shared an extremely close relationship in the creation of the Afghan Mujaheddin, and the handling of their asset Bin Laden.

* The ONLY publicly known account of Al Queda as a functioning organization, it’s structure and even it’s name before 9/11 is the testimony of a so called Al Queda operative who turned himself in after the Kenya US embassy bombings and who is widely regarded as having given false information to help clasify Al Queda as an organization to fit with current RICO laws for prosecuting international criminal syndicates. He is also known to have recieved a lot of money for his testimony.

* The only evidence actually linking Bin Laden to 9/11 in any way is a video confession which surfaced many years after 2001, was not confirmed by ‘Al Queda’ and is widely suspected of being a fraud. And the testimony of a guantanamo bay inmate tortured for years and thus completely unreliable.

* The US has used ‘Terrorism’ as a trigger for war and expansion into the middle east and central asia.
An area Obama’s top advisor Brezinski writes in his book as being of pivotal importance to the continuity of US power. A man you can find on film rallying jihadists to power in Afghanistan with cries of “god is on your side!”.

* The US has used ‘Terrorism’ as a trigger for the privitization of defense infrastructure at home and abroad.

* The US has used ‘Terrorism’ as an excuse to strangle civil liberties and democratic freedoms.

* The US installed the Karzai ‘government’ at a time of it’s choosing.

* Under US occupation Afghanistan now supplies over 90% of the world’s herion. The world’s most dangerous and addictive narcotic. The Taliban outlawed and eradicated production.

* The US is now known to have manipulated evidence and the public on a grand scale as a pretext to invade a country for strategic purposes, causing civil war and immense casualties.

* The US economy is in VERY bad shape right now.

* The Obama administration retreated back step by step with their official story of what happened in the Osama raid.

First they said there was an intense gun battle and now we know the enemies didn’t fire a single shot.

Osama used his wife as a human shield and fired on his attackers, now she tried to protect him and he was executed unarmed.

And you expect people to listen to you guys anymore??

Sadly, western media and government sources have become so colossally discredited in the last few decades, in particular the last 10 years, that now people are just too exhausted or embarrassed to really challenge anything…

Because the only power we have to do so is in the pathetic, though free, theatre of internet blogs.. apparently now also discredited.

Now that the boogyman has gone a quick whitewash in Afghanistan -maybe some schools, a friendly puppet military or police force controlled government, oil pipeline secured and the US can pull out before the next election. Looks great to the unlearned herd voters.

Just after the election holiday the same and forces can then be re-committed using a Libyan, Israel or Iraq base and whammo go into Iran – all cost effective-like Obama likes.

-I dont agree, as it was another dirty chapter in a dirty war.

So, when someone goes around killing innocent civilians, it is fone to kill them?

To what extent does that make George W Bush a legitimate target? Or any US general from the last ten years?

See the problem? Obama got the tone just about perfect. If only he really would close Guantanamo, the US would have half a chance on getting to grips with the real (economic) threats it faces.

With all the wars, both covert and declared, US is the top killing machine on earth. And when you count the weapons made and sold by USA, no nation comes close to beating US as the death manufacturer. SO YES, “AMERICAN CAN REALLY DO SOMETHING PROPERLY”. We can kill!

I hope you are very proud of your country, Mr Easterbrook! Osama bin Laden may have planned the 9/11 attacks, but most of the world know that Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda did not carry it out.