¿Implementation, capture, trial? Death Of Osama Bin Laden

In June 2002 I was in the city of New York, had been nearly nine months since the bombing of the WTC Al Qaeda and other terrorist group's goals. The image of ground zero will never forget, not reflected by the destruction there, rather by the feeling that caused all the pain to know that they had suffered more than two thousand Americans killed that September 11, flown by aircraft bombs by Muslim kamikazes. 10 years later, the world awakens to news of the death of the leader and primary responsibility for the suicide attacks of 11 / 9 and also other terrorist attacks in Europe, specifically in London and the De Atocha, Spain, which cost the lives of so many human beings.

Today we argue about the "modus operandi" of the elite forces of the American Navy, about the coldness of their actions, the fact the body get rid of Bin Laden, a practice that in Latin America continues to raise controversy, episodes of missing persons in the military regimes of the sixties to the eighties. There is also speculation the Pakistan government's actions-How was it possible that the planet's most wanted terrorist is hiding 50 meters from a military academy, in a suburb of the military. For years, everyone knew that the most likely place where bin Laden was taking refuge in Pakistan. The reasons were obvious: the proximity to the extensive Afghan border, where Bin Laden was indeed at the time of 11 / 9, supported by the Taliban and that after the U.S. military raid, which came almost immediate response, then, petrified Bush should have mobilized the former leader of Al Qaeda to a safer place than the Afghan mountains. That war that still has major American forces in that country, has been extended for more years than any other war, including Viet Nam and low that they have never confided his figures.

The news tells us that the complex where he lived Bin Laden was not more than 6 years old, demonstrating that, at some point, not less time, Bin Laden, effectively took refuge in Afghanistan. He must have been true that once perpetrated the attacks in NY, it would be impossible to move to another distinct region of the planet which was planned to be in that moment, so speculation about his whereabouts in various regions of the planet, only flares were considered for the American secret services, who certainly know that today is practically impossible to move through the world incognito, regardless of the money you have.

Afghanistan since antiquity, was a passageway used by entire villages to move between Asia and? Africa and obviously in those places where bin Laden was kept and keeps the networks today its cultural, language, religion, ethnicity and patron financiers. Curious is a comparison between the accounts of the death of Bin Laden with Che in Bolivia killed both by the American secret services, executed and their bodies made to disappear. Regardless of whether bin Laden represents a model for us all reprehensible, it is also true that for millions of Muslims is a commendable model. I remember a trip to Cuba in the same year I went to NY, where I called attention tremendously, I think that I have a photograph of a sign at the airport in Havana, where it appeared the figures of Fidel, Che and Bin Laden, and I think now causes less rejection at that time, given the analogy that just stated. No wonder that this fact causes us different feelings among viewers because although millions applaud the fact unhinged his death, another number at least question the way, why was not captured, there is evidence the clash, the action was filmed, and so on.?

If Nuremberg took the time to try and allies execute those responsible for genocide and global war that claimed the lives of more than 50 million human beings, why in this case did not seek a trial Bin Laden's public? American governments insist on the concealment of information as a management practice of his power, will we have to wait years until another Wikiliks declassify the information now in the hands of the government opts American and does not want to surrender? Or is layered to deliver? The media show the capture, trial and execution of Saddam Hussein did not serve the American government experience that the best way is always the one who leads us to the truth and the truth today is that Bin Laden was executed, without any other option than that. Some will say what punishment would correspond to a murderer like this but death? I mean, why waste time in following a path whose end we all knew would inevitably death. Maybe that was the reasoning of those who acted and made the decision to do so in this sense: at all costs to kill al Qaeda leader, well, if that thought is more than clear that international law, from this action will restart to write in this other sense, the old law of retaliation.

As a historian I can not pass this analysis, perhaps many people do not sympathize, but the science of history needs to constantly wonder if the times we live in and the actions we take today will impact on the future, I am certain that while Americans which were not clarify its real intentions regarding the capture or killing of Bin Laden, or leave well established that happened in the operation which resulted in the death of the terrorist, will be making a new myth, that little or nothing can contribute to the development of new generations growing up, do not forget that today the figure of Che represents an entire mythology that the market has been in charge of praise, lest in some years, our children or grandchildren wear T-shirts and caps with the image the greatest terrorist known by our generation .-