So the death of Osama bin Laden. Ten years and they finally found the frail old leader of al-Qaeda. Ten years of wars, deaths and misery leading to a rather anti-climactic “Yeah, bin Laden’s dead”.
Now it has to be said that the details are relatively shady. A forty minute firefight, the death of bin Laden and four other people, including his son and a female used as a human shield. At first I had quite a sense of pride in the twenty-five navy seals who entered the compound, but now that I think about it. Twenty-five men against three men; “no Americans were injured”, I should hope not. What took five times as many men to take down four people, one of whom wasn’t incredibly fit. These are America’s elite…
But inevitably with any death comes another huge line of conspiracy theories. The news that bin Laden would buried at sea (a term which I find to made no sense whatsoever anyway) provoked many reactions of “It was him, burying him at sea removes all evidence”. Well, yeah. That’s kinda the point. Being buried at sea means that nobody (really) can dig up the body, or erect a shrine around the man’s grave.
Perhaps the most justified conspiracy, if that exists, is the fact that this was all done within the twenty-four hours of his death. It’s been reported that it’s Islamic tradition to perform the service in this manner, but since when did a man dubbed “the most evil man on Earth” deserve tradition in Americans eyes? Personally, I think it was a mark of respect to the Islamic faith to ensure that they took this as an act against al-Qaeda and not Islam as a whole, but not everybody has the same lenient mindframe without resorting to “IT’S ALL LIES”.
So Osama bin Laden gets added to list of JFK, Elvis Presley, 9/11 and Michael Jackson. Conspiracy Top Trumps anyone
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