The man that the US of A love to hate is officially dead as a doornail, apparently shot in a US-led commando raid on his hideout somewhere in Pakistan. When I first read the news, the first thing I felt was relief. After all, a good Khawarij is always a dead one. OBL’s greatest mistake was to pick out civilian targets for his so-called “global war” against the US, and I never could understand the rationale for doing so. If he had launched his attacks against Israel, that would have made better sense. Then again, the Khawarij never had a record for ever thinking straight or take into consideration the immense harm they would do to Islam in general and the Muslim ummah in particular by killing innocent lives.
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill talks about his bombshell story in The Nation about Blackwater’s involvement in targeted killings, drone attacks, and other covert operations in Pakistan.
After reading this salient account of the Benazir Bhutto history by Tariq Ali, it is perhaps not a hard thing to surmise the circumstances behind that fateful day of December 28th 2007 when she was assassinated. The fact that she was the darling of the United States of A didn’t help either. She was touted as that great Beacon of Democracy, the Female Messiah who will carry the Shining Torch of Justice and Freedom to an oppressed Pakistan in every foreign media, but that account just changes every positive view I ever had of Benazir Bhutto.
It just goes to show that Washington will back the most corrupt and brutal dictators and politicians in the Muslim World in order to subjugate Muslims to their Christian tyranny and imperial hegemony.
I knew of the assassination and her passing a mere few hours after the initial attack. Any such crime is always reprehensible, no matter the motivation behind it. My deepest condolences to her family and the people of Pakistan for their loss.
