Criticized by Human Rights Watch, the Kuwaiti police and accused of torturing and persecuting men who imitate women, calling on the government to protect what has been said that violence and repression and torture practiced against them.
The spokesman declined to the Kuwaiti Interior Ministry declined to comment before reading the report issued by the organization Human Rights, based in New York.
And speaks of the report, which came under the heading: “enjoy perusing the door” on the practice of repressive and imitate violence against women, and provides for certificates to the vulnerability of these prosecutions and rape by police officers.
The organization called on the Kuwaiti government to abolish a law passed in 2007 criminalizes “imitating the opposite sex,” and demanded accountability from police officers accused of violence and torture against men who resemble women.
He said the report, which included statements from 40 men who imitate women, and certificates of sources in the Ministry of the Interior, and the statements of doctors and personalities active in the public sphere and civil society, police have been granted freedom without restrictions to decide is who is “imitating the other sex” on the grounds that there are no rules or measurements identify these controls or imitate.
Said Sarah Leah Watson, a responsible organization in the Middle East that “no one deserves, regardless of sexual orientation, that of being arrested on the basis of a vague law enforced, and then exposed to violence and torture by the police.”
“The Kuwaiti government and the duty to protect all its citizens and residents, including the face of social rejection and wide, from the brutal behavior of the police, and the application of the law is unjust.”
It is said that the shift of the genus to another, in particular, from man to woman, and imitating women from social taboos and religious in the Gulf countries, and is, if it happens, in the secrecy and confidentiality, away from the eyes, because of fears of exposure to heavy fines or imprisonment.

Source: BBC Arabic

Then there was the problem with the American economy, which needed fixing. He borrowed trillions of dollars for a stimulus package that did not work. So he borrowed trillions more for another stimulus package that did not work. No one seems to know exactly where all that money went but it is now on the books and has to be paid back. Our debt is so high now it will probably take decades to get it back down into workable form.

Then he came up with an idea to try to make money. He decided to sell our military weapons to the Saudis, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates. Were not talking bowie knives and M-16s, he’s selling fighter jets and upgrades to fighter jets, missiles and related technology, and training foreign military to fight. Has anyone noticed that people in that part of the world hate us.

Recently I saw a news headline stating that president Obama was usurping powers beyond the presidency to trump the workings of the legislative branch. When I looked the following day to try to find details on this I could find nothing, funny how some news dies so quickly. Makes one wonder if Pres. Obama is getting fitted for a crown, after all he does have the ears for it.

Yes Pres. Obama is achieved much in three years. I daresay that destroying our economy and selling our weapons to those who wish to kill us has done more harm to our country in three years that Osama bin Laden did in three decades. Now he has masterminded a new plan, he’s going to streamline our military. In layman’s terms this means he’s simply going to cut our military and make it harder for us to defend ourselves. Does anyone else smell a setup, I hope I’m not the only one that’s noticed the change.

A total of 88 Members of Parliament of the Arab League said the cruelty of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continued despite the Arab League monitoring team was in Syria.

“The murder of children and human rights violations that occurred in front of the monitoring team, increasing the anger of Arab society,” said Acting Parliamentary Kuwait, Ali Salem al-Deqbasi as quoted by USA Today, Monday (02/02/2012).

Earlier, President Assad said the Syrian government approved the proposed Arab League initiative to end the violence that occurred nearly nine months in Syria.

Such initiatives include, to the withdrawal of government forces and various heavy weapons from the streets of Syria. The initiative also includes initiate talks with the opposition and allow human rights activists and foreign journalists to enter Syria, and was followed by the release of political prisoners.

Escalation of violence that continues to rise following the attendance of the Monitoring Team to strengthen the Arab League opposition suspicions that President Assad sought to gain time in order to prevent condemnation and sanctions from the international community.

Syria suffered a political crisis and cause casualties approximately more than 5,000 people, due to anti-government protests that continue to occur.

Information relating to Syria is very difficult due to the foreign journalists and human rights activists barred from the country.

This morning, the last troops from the land of Uncle Sam had been withdrawn.
Of course, in line with this important moment, the U.S leave the face pockmarked by war with the death of about 4,500 soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

War between the United States against Iraq began in 2003. At that time, the U.S launched a missile first to disarm Saddam Hussein. The withdrawal of these troops, about 100 combat vehicles that average armored carry away the 500 U.S soldiers mingled happily worried. They crossed the desert in southern Iraq during the night toward the Kuwait border.

“It was nice to feel it all willend. I’ve been here since the beginning [of war],” Sergeant Christian Schultz said.
For the U.S. President, Barack Obama, the withdrawal of U.S combat troops that was the fulfillment of a promise which he uttered during hispresidential campaign. As for the people of Iraq, the U.S action that gives a sense of sovereignty, despite fears of a repeat of sectarian violence still exists.

Iraq’s main problem these days is that they do not have good air defense and lost the ability to gather intelligence. However, the problem of Iraq did not stop there. “We do not take care about America. We are thinking about how to obtain electricity, jobs, and oil,” said Abbas Jaber, a civil servant in Baghdad, as quoted by Reuters.

1. Afghanistan – land area: 251,773 sq mi/652,090 sq km; population: 34,443,000; capital: Kabul

2. Armenia – land area: 11,484 sq mi/29,743 sq km; population: 2,983,000; capital: Yerevan

3. Azerbaijan (Asian) – land area: 27,915 sq mi/72,300 sq km; population: 6,108,000; capital: Baku

4. Bahrain – land area: 277 sq km/718 sq mi; population: 794,000; capital: Manama

5. Bangladesh – land area: 55,598 sq mi/143,998 sq km; population: 161,315,000; capital Dhaka

6. Bhutan – land area: 14,824 sq mi/38,394 sq km; population: 696,000; capital: Thimphu

7. Brunei– land area: 2,226 sq mi/5,765 sq km; population: 411,000; capital: Bandar Seri Begawan

8. Cambodia– land area: 69,898 sq mi/181,035 sq km; population: 15,211,000; capital: Phnom Penh

9. China – land area: 3,691,943 sq mi/9,562,088 sq km; population: 1,355,350,000; capital: Beijing

10. Cyprus – land area: 3,572 sq mi/9,251 sq km; population: 812,000; capital: Nicosia

11.East Timor– land area: 5,743 sq mi/14,874 sq km; population: 1,192,000; capital: Dili

12. Egypt (Asian) – land area: 23,442 sq mi/60,714 sq km; population: 424,000; capital: Cairo

13. India – land area: 1,269,219 sq mi/3,287,263 sq km; population: 1,202,135,000; capital: New Delhi

14. Indonesia (Asian) – land area: 572, 479 sq mi/1,482,714 sq km; population: 237,383,000; capital: Jakarta

15. Iran – land area: 636,372 sq mi/1,648,195 sq km; population: 74,131,000; capital: Tehran

16. Iraq – land area: 169,235 sq mi/438,317 sq km; population: 30,623,000; capital: Baghdad

17. Israel – land area: 8,522 sq mi/22,072 sq km; population: 7,279,000; capital: Jerusalem*

18. Japan – land area: 145,914 sq mi/377,915 sq km; population: 127,699,000; capital: Tokyo

19. Jordan – land area: 34,495 sq mi/89,342 sq km; population: 6,361,000; capital: Amman

20. Kazakhstan (Asian) – land area: 1,005,487 sq mi/2,604,200 sq km; population: 15,412,000; capital: Astana

21. Korea, North – land area: 46,540 sq mi/120,538 sq km; population: 24,033,000; capital: Pyongyang

22. Korea, South – land area: 38,486 sq mi/99,678 sq km; population: 48,653,000; capital: Seoul

23. Kuwait – land area: 6,880 sq mi/17,818 sq km; population: 2,919,000; capital: Kuwait

24. Kyrgyzstan – land area: 77,182 sq mi/199,900 sq km; population: 5,494,000; capital: Bishkek

25. Laos – land area: 91,429 sq mi/236,800 sq km; population: 6,167,000; capital: Vientiane

26. Lebanon – land area: 4,015 sq mi/10,400 sq km; population: 4,236,000; capital: Beirut

27. Malaysia – land area: 127,355 sq mi/329,847 sq km; population: 27,942,000; capital: Kuala Lumpur

28. Maldives – land area: 115 sq mi/298 sq km; population: 322,000; capital: Male

29. Mongolia – land area: 603,909 sq mi/1,564,116 sq km; population: 2,748,000; capital: Ulaanbaatar

30. Myanmar – land area: 261,228 sq mi/676,578 sq km; population: 50,053,000; capital: Naypyidaw

31. Nepal – land area: 56,827sq mi/147,181 sq km; population: 29,922,000; capital: Kathmandu

32. Oman – land area: 119,499 sq mi/309,500 sq km; population: 2,815,000; capital: Muscat

33. Pakistan – land area: 307,374 sq mi/769,095 sq km; population: 173,117,000; capital: Islamabad

34. Philippines – land area: 115,831 sq mi/300,000 sq km; population: 93,715,000; capital: Manila

35. Qatar – land area: 4,437 sq mi/11,493 sq km; population: 895,000; capital: Doha

36. Russia (Asia) – land area: 4,937,000 sq mi/12,788,842 sq km; population: 36,541,000; capital: Moscow

37. Saudi Arabia – land area: 830,000 sq mi/2,149,690 sq km; population: 26,551,000; capital: Riyadh

38. Sri Lanka – land area: 25,332 sq mi/65,610 sq km; population: 20,644,000; capital: Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte

39. Syria – land area: 71,498 sq mi/185,180 sq km; population: 21,399,000; capital: Damascus

40. Taiwan – land area: 13,902 sq mi/36,006 sq km; population: 23,166,000; capital: Taipei

41. Tajikistan – land area: 55,251 sq mi/143,100 sq km; population: 7,389,000; capital: Dushanbe

42. Thailand – land area: 198,117 sq mi/513,120 sq km; population: 65,157,000; capital: Bangkok

43. Turkey (Asia) – land area: 293,415 sq mi/759,941 sq km; population: 68,179,000; capital: Ankara

44. Turkmenistan – land area: 188,456 sq mi/488,100 sq km; population: 5,170,000; capital: Ashgabat

45. United Arab Emirates – land area: 32,278 sq mi/83,600 sq km; population: 4,765,000; capital: Abu Dhabi

46. Uzbekistan – land area: 172,742 sq mi/447,400 sq km; population: 28,133,000; capital: Tashkent

47. Vietnam – land area: 127,882 sq mi/331,212 sq km; population: 88,257,000; capital: Hanoi

48. Yemen – land area: 203,850 sq mi/527,968 sq km; population: 24,536,000; capital: Sanaa 

*Most of the international community does not recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Nonetheless, if considerably smacks of hypocrisy, and nothing more than a political transfer to maintain the people at dwelling happy so that President Obama can say that he made good on his promise, and nonetheless be shut enough to cope with the vacuum that we’ve left in the country known as; Iraq. Which, I’d add is being filled in proper now by your pal and mine; Iran.

There was an fascinating article not too long ago in Vitality Every day titled; “US negotiating combat troop increase in Kuwait: officials,” by Employees Writers in Washington DC on November 10, 2011 which acknowledged;

“US negotiating with Kuwait for three,000+ combat troops in Iraq to redeploy to the Gulf emirate to counter Iran’s influence in the region. “Discussions are underway” with Kuwaiti leaders however no settlement yet. The US already has 20,000 forces in Kuwait but commanders and administration officers are eager to bolster the military’s presence in the Gulf amid considerations about instability in Iraq and Iran’s function in the region.”

Kuwait has been good to us through the years, and is so grateful that we repelled Iraq within the past. They’re also somewhat a impartial country, and so they attempt to stay out of all of the issues of the region as best they will, which is not all the time really easy considering their geographical location. Nevertheless, those troops aren’t on their way house, their merely being redeployed. That is not precisely what the American individuals who voted for Barack Obama expected.

Now then, I didn’t count on something from Barack Obama, nor did I vote for him, so I’m not shocked, I am not stunned, and I spotted when he made those promises that they have been somewhat premature, and just a little bit naïve, although I understand they had been politically prudent at the time, as Barack Obama was busy blaming all the pieces on the Bush Administration and calling President Bush unfit to lead. However hey, that is just politics and I realize that, even when the twenty-somethings of their first time voting have been awestruck by the cautious choreographed political branding of that Junior Senator from Illinois.

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Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations general assembly in 1948, the human rights situation around the world has significantly improved. Yet, numerous human rights abuses endure. While it is implausible to eliminate all human right abuses in the short term, we can examine their causes and consequences to propose measures which lessen the magnitude of these abuses.

Religious discrimination is a widespread human rights abuse and operates on a spectrum, ranging from the religious cleansing of a society to children being bullied in the schoolyard because of their religious beliefs. People may be restricted from practising their religion or be subject to verbal abuse. Iran presents an extreme example of religious discrimination. Non-adherents of Islam are labelled as being ‘unclean’ by Iranian leadership. The government monitors minority religious groups and has executed religious leaders covertly. Religious minorities experience high unemployment and are economically disadvantaged as much of the economy is controlled by the state. They are also accused of espionage for the United States and her allies. This has resulted in many from minority religions fleeing the oppressive state, further polarising the society.

Developed nations which boast of religious tolerance are not exempt from religious discrimination. In the United Kingdom, studies found that one in four children are bullied because of their faith. This would potentially lead to self-mutilation and drug abuse later in life due to the emotional scars. The events of September 11 resulted in many believing that all adherents of Islam are capable of the horrific acts of sadism that were perpetrated by Al Qaeda when common sense tells us this thinking is panic-driven. This has resulted in growing discontent amongst the Muslim community in the United States as they feel that they are subject to additional scrutiny, such as additional body searches when travelling.

Another form of human rights abuse occurs when governments deliberately control and manipulate the media. They manipulate the information that people get, abusing the trust that people place in the media to provide them with the truth. They may deliberately alter details by manipulating photographs or producing false stories. For example, when the US troops entered Kuwait after the Gulf War, the people were waving small American flags and this was beamed around the world. It sent the message that US soldiers were liberating heroes. However, one can only wonder how the people of Kuwait could have acquired the aforementioned flags after an extended siege. It may only be flag waving but it serves to distort the perception of the public. Reports coming out of warzones are actively edited and information selectively presented to the public to promote government agenda. Halfway across the world, China is famed for its great wall as well as its great firewall, an invisible barrier across the web that blocks most Chinese from accessing websites that the government disapproves of.

Why do such human rights abuses arise? The underlying reasons can be narrowed down to fear and ignorance. The Iranian government fears that the influence of minority religious groups could shake its stranglehold on society and result in their demise, hence it relentlessly oppresses them. Governments around the world choose to manipulate the media to ensure that people will support their viewpoint and prevent ideals that they deem unacceptable from entering society. The United States government is genuinely fearful that they could lose the mandate to continue with their war on terrorism. On the other hand, the Chinese government is afraid that human rights activists will galvanise society to demand for more human rights, which they feel could be destabilising. When ignorance is concerned, it arises due to a lack of information about other religions or how governments work. People may claim that they understand another religion but their understanding may merely be platonic.

There is no universal solution to human rights abuses. To help alleviate the problem, we need to start from ourselves. We should go beyond the books and interact with people from other religions, as there is no better teacher than experience. By gaining a deeper understanding of these religions, we will be able to appreciate their traditions and it may even strengthen our resolve in our own faiths. The media should refuse to promote political agendas and report the facts as they are. They should have a balanced viewpoint even on sensitive issues. The media has a moral obligation to ensure that they present the facts to the people in an unbiased fashion so that people see all sides before developing their own opinions. 

It is unfortunate that we must acknowledge that human right abuses still exist in the world today. We are far from an ideal society where every individual gets to enjoy his or her rights. Perhaps Ralph Waldo Emerson put it best when he mused that “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”. If we were more eager to ensure that everyone gets to enjoy basic human rights, this ideal society will be achieved sooner rather than later.

A  mujahid (”holy warrior”)  fights in a jihad for  “Allah,  the Truth”  and defends it at all costs ; he is a martyr if he  dies or is killed for it. Bin Laden’s jihad was ”to lift the word of God, to make His religion victorious.”  As a mujahid  he  called a jihad  to unite the Muslims against “infidels” (nonbelievers of Allah) and foreign forces on “Allah’s sacred soil”–  the Soviet army that occupied Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989; the American troops in Saudi Arabia from the time of the Gulf Crisis in 1990; the Israelis in Palestine.  According to his “fatwa” ( religious decree) it is the duty of every Muslim to wage  a relentless war against  foreign occupation or invasion of Muslim lands. Osama bin Laden, collectively a huge rescue squad, waged that war in an epic clash with superpowers.

Osama bin Laden’s conflict with America  began thirty-two years ago  when   in 1979 Soviet Russia occupied Afghanistan and established a puppet Communist government. The United States  viewed  the occupation of Russia as a form of imperialism ( annexation and control of  other  lands) and invasion  and so, America sent  $600 million as financial aid to Afghanistan through Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency. Osamabin Laden considered the  presence of the Soviets on foreign soil as a  form of profanity or desecration of ”Allah’s holy land” and so  with his own money ($300 million) and donations,  he recruited  35,000 warriors to drive  the infidels. The Saudi  Arabia government  and wealthy Muslims donated $600 million a year through his connections with the Saudi royal family  and the petrol-billionaires of the Gulf.  After ten years of battle, Russia  became bankrupt  and lost the war.

In 1988, one year before the last Russian troop left Afghan soil,  bin Laden formed the al-Qaeda, a radical movement inspired by the teaching of  Islamic author and thinker Sayyid Qutb. Qutb  preached that  the  sharia (Islam law) was weakened through ignorance, and that there was a need for  principled  Muslims to establish “true Islamic states” free from foreign influence, geared towards the creation of a new caliphate.Those that  oppose Islam become enemies.

In 1989, after Russia pulled out its  last troop from Afghanistan,  Osamabin Laden worked hand in hand with  Egyptian  jihadists and  with the Taliban (a radical group of  warlords composed of young students  who ruled Afghanistan with iron hand).  The Taliban  legitimized public executions and amputations, non-education of women and the  the burka to cover women’s faces. They  banned the performing arts (singing, dancing, music);  censored television; destroyed  ancient art and artifacts. Per capita income was $300 a year. Leading desperate lives, the Afghans joined bin Laden’s jihad and Afghanistan  became the spawning ground of terrorists, home to the al-Qaeda.  

In 1990 bin Laden  returned to Saudi Arabia when Iraq invaded Kuwait.  The situation put the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia  and its oil fields at risk by neighbors fighting, and so  bin Laden  volunteered  his  mujaheddin (”holy warriors” ) but King Fahd  deployed  instead American troops on Saudi territory. Spurned, bin Laden  began hating the Americans and   publicly denounced  King Fahd for what he thought to be a betrayal to the jihad cause. King Fahd banished  him from Saudi Arabia .

A man contemplating revenge “keeps his wounds green.”  In 1994 bin Laden resumed his verbal attack at King Fahd. King Fahd  revoked his passport and citizenship. To add insult to injury his Saudi Arabian billionaire father cut off his monthly stipend ($7million a year, now equal to more or less $11 million)  and  disowned him. The Saudi government froze his  assets; then,  he was exiled to Sudan  from where he was also  banished. Saudi Arabia banished him permanently after that. 

Bin  Laden took refuge in Afghanistan, and the  ruling Talibans  legitimized the al-Qaeda. “Man is only truly great when he acts from passions.” Since the wealthy Arab families and businessmen saw that he was passionate in pursuing his jihad, they did not stop supporting him. He laundered their  cash donations  in ”unscrupulous” Islamic banks  by  either channeling them to charities  (which served as front liners for  the al-Qaeda)  or  by transporting  cash-filled suitcases to Pakistan’s  unregulated banks that can handle up to $10 million. As  “emir”  (commander)  and senior operations chief of al-Qaeda,  bin Laden had access to  the  money for recruiting and  training  operatives,  for buying tickets and false passports,  for  paying   al-Qaeda members,  and  for running overseas-driven businesses.

The defeat of Russia in the ten-year Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) taught the scheming  bin Laden  that superpowers collapse not because they lose the war but because their economy crumbles as a result of war. Vengeance is a delicious fruit that one waits upon  to ripen.  Still wounding from his rift with King Fahd who preferred American troops  over  his “holy warriors”, he masterminded a  plan to bankrupt the United States by means of provoking itself to bankruptcy from long and  weary  engagements.   

In 1996 the al-Qaeda announced a  jihad to expel foreign troops from what they called “Islamic lands”  through  bin Laden’s  religious edict. The mission,  a metaphor for a declaration of war against the United States and its allies,  was  ”to kill the Americans and their allies , civilians,  and military … in accord with the words of Allah… until there is no more oppression and there prevail justice and faith in Allah.”

The September 11, 2001 attack of America was a foregone conclusion. The attack was the most devastating in American history, killing approximately 3,000 people. Two commercial airliners rammed into the World Trade Center , a third one into the Pentagon, and a fourth one originally intended to target the US Capitol crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The United States intelligence agents  identified the perpetrators of the attack as the al-Qaeda headed by bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and others  along with the Taliban.  

The  perpetrators, in spite of the ultimatum to surrender so they would be put to  trial, evaded arrest.  Whereupon, on October 7,  2001 at the order of  President George W. Bush,  the US Navy  and  US Air Forces launched Operation Enduring Freedom along with the British Armed Forces and  struck at al-Qaeda and Taliban targets throughout Afghanistan, crippling their power, but not exterminating them. The remnants of the attack  found the nearest  bolt-hole: Pakistan.

In 2003 President Bush sought to find evidence if bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were collaborating to attack the United States. Whereupon, he invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein, his three sons, and the Baath Party, but no evidence of any collaboration was found. He also failed to find the  suspected weapons of mass destruction, a frustration he accepted. 

May 1, 2011 ended  fifteen years of global  manhunt for Osama bin Laden when he was gunned down by the  US  Navy SEAL (sea, air, land), an elite commando ( military unit) composed of “the best of the best”  trained soldiers in the world, acknowledged superheroes  with  legendary fighting skills. The SEALS operate in anonymity, a standard operating procedure. After  the operation,  they disappear  into the shadows.  

It is told that  in an obscure mission whether to take bin Laden dead or alive,  thirty to forty SEALS  descended  from two helicopters and stormed into bin Laden’s compound at Abbottabad, Pakistan where  bin Laden  was thought to be in hiding in a  not too  heavily-guarded three-storey mansion  for six years. Osama bin Laden was unarmed but resisted arrest. A  woman tried to shield him but was forced  away. In the fray,  bin Laden’s face was blasted beyond recognition: a bloody gunshot wound  to his head, the left eye splintered–a  gory image, perhaps more bizarre than the evil things he did. It took less than forty minutes to complete the operation. His body, reduced to a bag of meat and bones,  was taken aboard a ship,  washed and treated  in accordance with Muslim ritual, after which  the thing was unceremoniously  thrown into the sea where the yawning ocean received it.

After bin Laden’s death, many conspiracy  theories have surfaced,  generating more heat than light , a source for splitting hairs, a feeding frenzy among journalists who sometimes turn out to be the bigger story than the event itself as a result of inconsistencies and juggling  of data. There are people who wonder if President Obama  timed the capture of bin Laden to jibe with the coming election. As of now, President Obama has the ace up his sleeves, with an approval rating of 56%. What is he going to do with the 44%?  Fix the economy, easier said than done.  ”In economics the majority is always wrong”. Statistics are inconstant lovers. Even the sun is not steady to the eye.

About the controversial  picture:  Is he the lunatic  guy we got?  The DNA is not infallible. Well…. IF he’s dead , he’s dead: no two ways about it.  The   transparency score? Zero. If the picture is only  a lie or   a trick,  that  is no big deal  because it is easy to photo shop; besides, the more you examine a picture, the more you do not understand. Take it from Hitler: “The more lies, the more you are believed.”  Lie, Obama, lie!  as  long as you don’t put your people in harm’s way. On the opposite side of the spectrum, the hardest thing to keep is the  one that is not there.

Let’s give our leaders the benefit of the doubt. Call it an  inexactitude or a a white lie.   White lies are harmless, may be done for the greater good in the long run.  Some of the Congressmen reportedly saw the gory picture   but dismissed it  later  as fake. Weren’t they delighted? Some people are pleased when they are deceived. The President and Congress are the writers of the first rough draft of history. Did they get it right the first time?  God cannot change the past but historians can.  ”The real war does not get into the books.” (Walt Whitman) The President and the Congressmen are in the same basket. 

 Justice for Osama bin Laden? “Judgment is the first step to retraction”, and so,  one must be careful in putting his hand on the scale. Commonsense and intuition tell us that  injustice becomes more just and fair than justice  when the crime outweighs the punishment. The worst kind of justice that could have been accorded to bin Laden  would be to put him on trial. Sentence first, verdict later,  was the best course of action America  took.  His death was long overdue.  To America which is the  world’s show window  of democracy, “justice delayed is democracy denied” (John F. Kennedy).  Fair vengeance does not call for punishment. Justice may not always be the best policy. “Let the punishment match the offense” would be a strange and unfair concept  of justice applied to bin Laden. Death to  bin Laden was a fulfilment of  his obsession to be a martyr; to America,  a punishment for his wrongdoing. On this score we gave bin Laden a favor; on this account we have not been fully  redressed.

In the context of Islamic justice, did bin Laden get justice?  The Quran (sacred  scripture of Islam) places things “in their rightful place, giving others equal treatment” a concept of equality.  A just Muslim  leader says,  ”I forbid injustice for myself and forbid it also for you.” After the September 11 attacks two wars were launched by America to find  bin Laden  so he could  defend himself in a court of law, but he evaded arrest. He took America on a merry chase for more or less a  decade  hoping to bankrupt America.  Holed up in his hideout,  in  a flash,  before the SEALS put a bullet in his head,  bin Laden lived to see that it was an American bullet that put an end to all that was evil and mortal of him.  Figuratively, he sat on a throne of bayonets. A man who lives by the sword dies by the sword. This is retributive  justice:  the reward of virtue and punishment of vice. This is also Islamic justice, “poetic justice” to the Greeks.  

According to  some senior Islamic scholars,  sea burial  for  bin Laden  does not  square  with the  Muslim tradition for burying  the dead: the  proper style should be, that the head  points  towards the holy city of Mecca. For me,  two horns to adorn the blasted head would make for the most conspicuous head that ever pointed towards Mecca. To equip a devil’s head with a halo would be a parody  (ridicule) to a saint.

Bin Laden  left no  other  lasting memorial  but that he was born and that he died. It is as natural to die as to be born. He died a holy warrior to Allah’s cause.   He had a better burial than the pulverized victims of the September 11 massacre.  What  more could his fans  and followers ask for?

Bin Laden’s memory  lingers on  as a concrete specimen of the “fickleness of breath’s warm power” and of the futility of dreams.  Where is it now, his  dream to unify the Muslims in their jihad against the infidels?  Where is his new caliphate? Will his memory  fester like a toothache among the al-Qaedans  and become a rallying point to pursue his unfinished mission?  Osama bin Laden,  an unfinished song, a glide way to martyrdom, as many of his followers believe. To  most of us,  it is both terrible and amazing how dreams can die. Round  the restlessness of the  yawning ocean that engulfed him  forever,  hovers  the tale of his fall from tyranny and power, whatever that means.    

The al-Qaeda lost a leader but gained  who to them was a martyr.  To this band of  international terrorists bin Laden  perished  not in the way of animal destiny  but in the style of a  holy warrior whose life story squares with the jihad narrative of a man who deserted his material wealth in search of  the ideal.  We have freedom of worship, so let it be. 

But where is PEACE? On one hand, President Barack  Obama, hunter and hunted,  is  the  new hybrid  of the American fox and  the lion: the fox that detects the traps and the lion that terrifies the wolves.  And he is on the warpath. To the al-Qaeda he has this message: America is  reforming not a dead man but everybody else. No pussyfooting on Uncle Tom’s territory.  On the other hand, the al-Qaeda has a new battle song:   ”BARACK OBAMA: WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE”. War, a game of grown-up boys, specializes in miscalculations. Let’s see whose mud hits the hardest. There is no second prize for the runner-up. Shall we not give PEACE a chance?

Osama bin Laden,  “Prince of Terrorists”,   has fallen while America is  still on its toes. America,  misunderstood by bin Laden as  desecrator  of ”Allah’s sacred soil”,   never sought wars of expansion and aggression and the conquest of Islam. This is America:  healer of  the wounds of the defeated.  But Bad Guy Osama bin Laden will never understand this: in death there is no more argument. ###

White House officials insist that U.S. troops had “engaged in a firefight during the operation” when they attacked the compound on Sunday night.

But rather than attack in the middle of a hail of bullets, as was first presented, Pentagon sources confirmed that shots can only come from a gunman.

Abu Ahmed al-Kuwait, bin Laden trusted courier, had been hiding behind a door in the living room adjacent to the main building when American forces begin their attack.

He opened fire, but killed. After that, there were no other shots from inside the complex during the mission was 38 minutes.

Although there is recognition of this, official sources insisted SEAL team had faced a “threatening and hostile environment” as they explore the complex was to find their target.

Yesterday they were forced to confirm that none of the four victims were killed, including one of Bin Laden and an unnamed woman, carrying a weapon when they shot dead.

Latest inconsistencies in the description of America from the attack causes a variety of allegations that the Pentagon did not fully transparent about it.

The officials had to fix a number of statements about the attack, including the claim that Bin Laden has been holding automatic weapons and crouched behind his wife when he was shot dead.

Recent statement that differs significantly from the first information released on Monday.