How do Iraqis feel about the apparent death of al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden? For Iraq’s Al-Sabaah newspaper, columnist Amran al-Abaidi writes that Iraqis are right behind the Americans in celebrating the demise of a man that inflicted untold horror on the Iraqi people – far more, he writes, than the American invasion itself.
For Al-Sabaah, Amran al-Abaidi writes in part:
The world has every right to joyfully welcome the death of the leader of terrorism. America in particular is entitled to be proud and to celebrate that it has finally been able to avenge the deaths of his American and global victims. And we as Iraqis also have the right to rejoice at the news of his death. Those who think that the death of the leader and perpetrator of terrorism is only of concern to the American people are mistaken.
For over eight years, bin Laden mobilized all of his resources to lay booby traps all over the map of Iraq – from one end to the other. He booby-trapped Iraq with killings and destruction and by exacerbating grudges and hatred among various segments of the population. He caused more damage to the Iraqi people than the Americans, calling on his agents to carry-out these aforementioned acts. And with the corpses of Iraqis, bin Laden’s agents showed the extent of the hate that accompanies their way of thinking.
America did the right thing by throwing bin Laden’s corpse into the sea – not because there wasn’t a country that would have accepted his corpse, but because bin Laden doesn’t deserve even a cemetery grave. We believe that the whales will be the first to reach his flesh, but doubt that they’ll want anything to do with it.
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