Even the Nazis, before they were hanged, were put on trial in Nuremberg. Bin Laden was not assassinated, killed, shot, butchered, struck down. No. Bin Laden was “terminated” to cite Obama’s words. An elegant metaphor that reduces a man to an insect. The members of Goering’s family were not condemned to death, however one of Bin Laden’s sons has been “terminated”. He was there at the scene of the crime. It’s his fault. Bin Laden, a former friend of the CIA, and of the United States, educated in the best universities of the western world, is innocent or guilty for what happened on 09/11? It should have been established by a tribunal on the basis of evidence, of debate. The world would have observed and perhaps understood. The Americans have intervened in the home of others, as usual, cowboys of the Earth. Pakistan is an independent State. According to International law, the United States should have asked the government of Pakistan to capture Osama. Why didn’t they do that? According to United States sources Bin Laden’s corpse has been thrown into the sea after an Islamic funeral (?) on an aircraft carrier. They transported it from Islamabad for hundreds of kilometres so as to feed the fish. Who can demonstrate he has died?
Bin Laden is useful to Obama to win elections. Perhaps however, he’ll lose the war. This death is in fact a vendetta and blood calls for blood. Islamic fanaticism can explode once more and get more extensive. The scenes of jubilation in the streets of American cities after the news of the disappearance of Osama remind me of the same scenes in Arab countries after the collapse of the Twin Towers. There’s something sick about celebrating the death of a person, even a criminal, just as at that time it was revolting to celebrate a massacre.
Bin Laden was living in a three storey building in Abbottabad, a tourist locality in the mountains not far from Islamabad. Abbottabad is where there is the Headquarters of a military academy and numerous barracks. The Pakistani government couldn’t not have known, just as at that time, the Italian government couldn’t not have known that Totò Riina was living with his family in the centre of Palermo. Bin Laden was sacrificed, given that he hadn’t already died some time ago. “Terminated” as they say in America for those who dare to stand up to it. Inhumanity is among us. Let’s "stay human", in accordance with Vittorio Arrigoni’s message.