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Hettster | 08:05 Mon 02nd May 2011 | Radio
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I hear on BBC radio four news that the USA has assassinated Al-Qaeda founder and leader Osama Bin Laden. Do you view this as a justified action by the USA?
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Avatar Image sandyRoe
No. He was entitled to a fair trial.
08:07 Mon 02nd May 2011
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Absolutely, but I just wonder what will happen now.
08:07 Mon 02nd May 2011
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I await with interest the comments of those who consider the action to be not justified.
08:07 Mon 02nd May 2011
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The thing is, he didn't seem likely to give it all up and join Rotary......Pakistan must surely have agreed to the involvement (with one arm up the back I suppose)......I'm not sorry he's dead, but I worry about the USA being our international police force.
08:08 Mon 02nd May 2011
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I think it is always better if those who commit atrocities are given a public trial so the record is properly closed.
08:09 Mon 02nd May 2011
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we don't know the circumstances. I doubt he held his wrists out for the handcuffs.

dead or alive.. whatever.
08:11 Mon 02nd May 2011
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I assume that the intention was to put him on trial - and then execute him - but unfortunately he was killed whilst resisting capture. It happens.
08:12 Mon 02nd May 2011
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Mike you obviously meant execute him if found guilty?Remember the assumption of innocence?Unless of coure youre in north korea?Are you Kim Jong-il?
08:14 Mon 02nd May 2011
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Sorry but you cannot apply 'normal' rules to this purely evil man.

I doubt if it would ever have been possible to take him alive, and even if you did holding him prisoner has it's own obvious dangers.
08:17 Mon 02nd May 2011
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Al Qaeda exploded bombs in Morocco last week. Bin Laden probably knew nothing about them. The death of one individual won't stop them.
08:25 Mon 02nd May 2011
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They say on the news that there is an Egyptian doctor likely to take over as leader of Al Qaeda.
08:33 Mon 02nd May 2011
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He won't be following his hippocratic oath then.
08:35 Mon 02nd May 2011
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SandyRoe, >>>>No. He was entitled to a fair trial<<<<<<< You mean a fair trial like all the peodofile Catholic priests get when they are sheltered by the Vatican. throughout history Christians and muslims havent given anybody a fair trial!!!!

It will be a safer world with him dead!!
08:35 Mon 02nd May 2011
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He might be a doctor of divinity - or just got a PhD, hopkirk, not necessarily a medic.
08:36 Mon 02nd May 2011
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Apparently he was asked to surrender,but refused to do so,just deserts in my opinion
08:40 Mon 02nd May 2011
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I have to laugh at the thought of US Special forces politely asking someone to surrender.

Remember the British charity worker rescued with a grenade?
08:42 Mon 02nd May 2011
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The BBC TV news is just speculating that he's already been buried at sea.
08:45 Mon 02nd May 2011
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^ which seems a good idea on balance, there will be no grave for his fanatical followers to venerate.
08:46 Mon 02nd May 2011
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and now he gets to find out there is no paradise and a bunch of virgins waiting for him, lol :o)
08:46 Mon 02nd May 2011
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Well he wasn't that clever, he should never have filled his census form in.
08:47 Mon 02nd May 2011

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