Killing Osama Bin Laden is Not Revenge, But “A Legitimate Act of National Defense” – The American Minister
by U.S. Secretary of Justice, Eric Holder, said Thursday that Osama bin Laden’s death, killed by U.S. commandos, are "a legitimate act of national defense" and that his surrender had been accepted, if it was "possible" AFP.
U.S. Secretary of Justice, Eric Holder, said Thursday that Osama bin Laden’s death, killed by U.S. commandos, are “a legitimate act of national defense” and that his surrender had been accepted, if it was “possible” AFP.
“What happened to bin Laden is not an assassination. The operation was conducted in such a way to avoid civilian casualties,” said Holder, the BBC.
“Teaching would have been acceptable if it were possible, but we do not have risked his life in danger brave SEAL (commando members who performed the operation,” he said.
“It was a mission to capture or kill. If a surrender would have been possible, it would have been accepted. But before we protected all the forces that have occurred.”
“He was a man who has sworn to never be caught alive, there were reports that the explosives could have been, they might have weapons in the room in which he was found,” said Holder.
Public enemy number one of the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda leader was killed May 2 in a villa in the garrison town of Abbottabad in Pakistan, during an operation carried out by an air-borne commando.
Osama bin Laden’s sons on Tuesday denounced the “arbitrary execution” and viewed as “unacceptable” and “humiliating” throwing his body into the sea. In a statement published by the New York Times, they were asked their father “was not arrested and tried by a court order that the truth be told the whole world.”
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