Icheoku says the real news here and for which many people are and should be celebrating the world over is that it could be done - that America found a needle in a haystack and with a precision seen mostly in Hollywood movies penetrated another country's airspace, got to their target and took his lifeless body away as a trophy and left to safety of their ship all within a record short forty minutes.
An operation which one commentator/observer described as being "so surreal as to merit a fantasy comparison and which reminded him of the game - 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' which he plays on his Xbox." Icheoku says every American as well as decent people all over the world should be proud of what was accomplished; especially the secrecy surrounding the operation despite the notorious Washington DC leaky environment where people sometimes run their mouths of top government secrets?
The execution of Osama Bin Laden as far as Icheoku is concerned, admitted it is the crown jewelry of the war against terror's crown; is but a side story as Bin Laden was dead the day he poked his terrorist fingers in the eyes of America. Since 9/11, Osama Bin Laden became a dead man walking with a big bulls-eye conspicuously placed on both his forehead and his back, culminating in his final take-out by the American finest - the Navy Seal. Icheoku says congratulations! Icheoku wonders the perplexity and fear that descended on Bin Laden's long narrow face when he was awoken from sleep by the thunderous boots heralding the entrance of the men sent to bring justice to him, still rubbing his eyes to make sure it was not a nightmare or some other bad dream? But unfortunately for Bin Laden, the nightmare unfolding before his dazed eyes is one from which he will never fully woke up and never did, as he never lived to tell the story; and the rest of it the saying goes is now history. Osama Bin Laden is dead as a door knob and thrown away into the sea like a piece of garbage - the human garbage that he was. Icheoku says may his cold wicked soul now suffer in Hades, vainly longing for those elusive seventy-two virgins which supposedly awaits his despicable types. Hopefully, the huge gaping hole left in the hearts of Americans as well as other peoples of the world impacted by 9/11 will now begin to truly heal and before long the Freedom Towers will fill whatever is left of the physical hole left at World Trade Center, the situ of Bin Laden's wicked strike at the soul of American financial empire. Icheoku says the completion of the Freedom Towers coupled with the death of Osama Bin Laden will make whole the broken hearts and minds and the atmosphere which was fouled by Osama Bin Laden on 9/11.
However there are some intriguing questions arising from the successful operation to eliminate the world's most notorious mass murderer:- did the Pakistani authorities provide a safe-heaven for Bin Laden and if not or did not know about the devil in their midst, what use then is their security apparatus that a man so badly wanted would be hiding in plain sight in a neighborhood filled with many security outfits of the Pakistani state and not get noticed? If Pakistan is not a truly failed state and a banana Republic to have had this pulled underneath their nose then Icheoku does not know which other state appositely so qualifies for that acronym? The world's most wanted criminal Osama Bin Laden took up residency among them and was living in their midst for six long years; that the same Osama Bin Laden was take out and his lifeless body which can no longer cause any harm to anybody taken out to its watery grave, without the Pakistanis having a whiff of it? Yet they call themselves a "state" with nuclear weapons when they cannot provide ordinary security to ensure their country's territorial integrity and safety of its residents including a fugitive from justice Osama Bin Laden? Secondly, why was Osama not demobilized and taken alive; but this question appears to be now mute as the explanation that it would have resulted in a spectacle of great proportion is plausible. So a dead Osama is as good good as captured Osama as the objective of the whole war on terror was to get him and he was got, so case closed.
The other issue that drew Icheoku's particular attention is the none release of Osama Bin Laden's dead photographs to serve as closure to his saga? This was the argument made when the two killed sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qasay's bullet ridden bodies were shown both on television and on the pages of newspapers. Icheoku would like Osama's dead photographs to be released to finally shut-up all those conspiracy theorists who still doubt that Osama Bin Laden was finally got this time; despite repeated rumors of his demise in the past; some of which dated as far back as 2001? Please show us the evidence - OSAMA BIN LADEN"S DEAD PHOTOGRAPH! Further why the rush to bury him and in a watery grave? If according to the story, it is to honor his Islamic Muslim tradition, why in the water and not in the sandy earth of the Arabian desert? Again the explanation not to give his fanatical supporters a place of Mecca styled shrine is plausible and acceptable. Icheoku also hopes that his quick dispatch was not to prevent him from spilling the beans on 9/11 as some conspiracy theorists had it that the government might have something to do with 9/11 and just used Bin Laden as a handy-tool and now would not permit him to testify and implicate them?
The killing of Osama Bin Laden shows that you do not necessarily have to invade a country to get at a terrorist hiding or living among them as Osama Bin Laden was killed and his body spirited out without invading the country which was providing him a place of abode, Pakistan. It is also instructive that several presidents have tried but failed to nail Osama Bin Laden including President Clinton and GW Bush throughout his eight years in office but President Obama finally did and within two and half years in office. But hey, it got done eventually and this is what is important and for which America should be very proud of her accomplishment. Icheoku also hopes that when the men sent to get the King's ransom met Osama Bin Laden, they borrowed a leaf from Godfather the movie and told him that "America sends her greeting"; before firing that shot that became his one way ticket to hell. Now that the snake's head has been finally cut off and the man who allegedly gave Islam a bad name dead, let us hope that militant Islam will come to an end and the world can once again enjoy the peace which eluded it since they were violated on 9/11 by Osama Bin Laden and his hateful Islamic thugs.
Once again, let the gist of the celebration should not be lost on some people as America is not celebrating the death of a puppy dog terrorist but the feat of our boys that brought about that end - they successfully pulled off one of the biggest human-heist ever recorded in history and for this we all should walk ten feet taller and be proud of our heritage and the country we have grown to love and call home. President GW wanted him dead or alive; but President Obama got him both alive and dead but let us not find closure that the job was finally done and it was an America bullet, an American gun and America special forces that dispatched world terrorist numero uno to the world beyond. If there is ever a time when revenge is sweet, this time is that time and Icheoku joins the rest of Americans and decent people of the world in celebrating a feat that was accomplished by our special forces with our dear President Barack Obama presiding while his national security team provided all the support and cheer leading. Bravo America; this is what the real shock and awe looks and feels like. The dispatch of Osama Bin Laden is another fine feather just added to President Barack Obama's national security credentialed cap. It took an Obama to get the Osama, how about that for rhyme; their similar sounding names notwithstanding. Viva America! Long Live the Republic and may God continue to bless America!FYI:- Osama Bin Laden was killed in a house where he lived in Thanda Chuha area of Bilal Town in the garrison town of Abbottabad and for the past six years; a house which was less than a kilometer away from Pakistan's Military Academy at Kakul some few miles from Islamabad Pakistan.
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