Osama bin Laden is Really Dead

It has been a long time since posting my last article and boy; I missed a lot of issues worth discussing. Hopefully so long as time is gracious, I will attempt to share my opinion on stories that hit the headlines lately.

First off, a lot has been read or heard since US Pres. Obama reported to his country and to the world the death of Osama bin Laden by a surgically precise covert operation of the US Navy SEAL. Despite the American president’s pronouncement, less than 24 hours later, the world is skeptic if the number one terrorist has indeed met his end. As of this writing, there is no available proof that bin Laden is really dead aside from what Mr. Obama’s world report.

Here in the Philippines and rightly so elsewhere in the world, millions of doubting Thomases want to see physical evidence such as the remains of the al Qaeda founder. Somewhere, probably there are videos or still pictures of the assault showing the 9/11 mastermind lying on his pool of blood with a bullet wound in the head but authorities look not ready to present gruesome pictures or videos to the public.

Personally, Pres. Obama’s television statement serves as a proof that bin Laden is really dead. How could a US president lie before the world on an issue of global interest? If Mr. Obama is lying not only to his fellow Americans but to the world, what  good does he get out from that? Besides, media outlets are now saying in “details” (if that is an accurate word) how the operation was executed starting from the first stages of the mission.

What makes the news “unbelievable” is how bin Laden is found and killed.

It was just like finding a pin in hay. The United States has spent a good fortune and time in finding its foremost nemesis for a decade. During that time, some quarters even believed that bin Laden has been dead for a long time but only to be resurrected perennially by his recorded video broadcasts.

Bin Laden’s custom-made lair is just a few kilometers away from military installations and Pakistan is a nuclear-powered country with sophisticated radar capabilities. Obviously they were overpowered by American technology. SEAL commandos were able to penetrate the area while “invisible” reinforcements were on standby in international air space and waters just in case.

We don’t know how quick the mission was carried out but the unbelievable that we see in movies sometimes happen in real military operation.

It was a sophisticated job but it is done. And what’s the proof?

The American president said it.