Some two weeks ago I remember reading a news analysis about Barack Obama's steeply falling credibility and the general discontent about his regime in the wake of election campaigns that are warming up. Yesterday all the TV slots and net space was eaten up by the news of Osama being gunned down. Admittedly, I was shocked when I first came across it on one of the updates by Moment of Zen which read 'Usama Bin Laden dead'. I wondered for a moment if they had got the person wrong before discovering that even FBI website had his name as 'Usama'. He was killed in an ambush in an ISI safe house located near a Pak military base, it said. The body was buried in the sea soon afterwards.
Er... maybe it's just me but why would they do that?
Apparently, in accordance with Muslim burial rituals, the corpse had to be buried within 24 hours, which they did.
Now for the WTFF moment. Since when have the Americans started being so sensitive of Muslim customs, especially the ones post-death? Was that a conscience compensator for a decade long of inhuman torture killings of endless innocents? And why would they want to be just to Osama of all the terrorists?
America is a land of Watergate scandal, the only 'discovered' bigass Presidential scandals. The post of the President of America = that of the world ruler. Case in point - Obama says Osama's dead and the world believes it. Where are dedicated columns on the doubt of his claims? To reach to those heights, it will be fairly human for anyone to stoop to new lows. It is fairly risky, yes, but what can not be suppressed by billions of dollors and threats and blackmails especially when stakes are so high?
The only reason I doubt all this is because there's hardly any evidence of him being dead. I am not much of a broadcast media person and I might have missed out on crucial developments but from whatever I have gathered from reading two newspapers, there's no photographic evidence or at least not any that has been released.
For me, the whole thing reeks of suspicion. Anyone else here?
Er... maybe it's just me but why would they do that?
Apparently, in accordance with Muslim burial rituals, the corpse had to be buried within 24 hours, which they did.
Now for the WTFF moment. Since when have the Americans started being so sensitive of Muslim customs, especially the ones post-death? Was that a conscience compensator for a decade long of inhuman torture killings of endless innocents? And why would they want to be just to Osama of all the terrorists?
America is a land of Watergate scandal, the only 'discovered' bigass Presidential scandals. The post of the President of America = that of the world ruler. Case in point - Obama says Osama's dead and the world believes it. Where are dedicated columns on the doubt of his claims? To reach to those heights, it will be fairly human for anyone to stoop to new lows. It is fairly risky, yes, but what can not be suppressed by billions of dollors and threats and blackmails especially when stakes are so high?
The only reason I doubt all this is because there's hardly any evidence of him being dead. I am not much of a broadcast media person and I might have missed out on crucial developments but from whatever I have gathered from reading two newspapers, there's no photographic evidence or at least not any that has been released.
For me, the whole thing reeks of suspicion. Anyone else here?