This war isn't over. Zawahiri, Ilyas Kashmiri and many others remain out there dangerous and committed to their twisted, perverse ambitions. So many Americans, Kenyans, Afghans, Brits, Spaniards and Pakistanis have died as a direct result of Bin Laden's sick vision. I don't care who's responsible. I'd be amazed if Pakistanis weren't involved at some level but these sort of petty claims for credit are truly irrelevant.
It is a good day as a lot of innocents have been avenged.
This particular action could not have happened without cooperation between Pakistan and USA which have been operating kill teams particularly for this purpose, so let us all leave it at that.
It is the result that matters.
It maybe that the seemingly deteriorating relationship between Pakistan and USA may have caught Osama off guard.
At least i also thought that all cooperation may have been on hold between our agencies and no more kill teams would have been operating.
We may not see eye to eye on many issues but killing Osama and Al Qaeda is certainly not one of them.
If Americans hate Osama, Pakistanis and Afghans are certainly not behind.
His death may result in a lot of leverage on the leadership of militant groups and may facilitate a more agreeable way forward for Pakistan, Afghanistan and USA, now that most of Al Qaeda leadership is dead.
Just when i thought things were at their worst, we are given a glimmer of hope.
The death of Osama shall be a huge blow for the Terrorists who operate in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a very symbol and rally point of the terrorists campaign has been eradicated.
Their idol who terrorized the world is now dead.
The terrorist who lived on and on despite killing thousands of innocents and bragging about it, is finally dead.
The decentralized nature of the terror network means that Osama's death will not make a huge impact immediately, however there is no denying that when such big ones are bagged and tagged...there is a slow but sure trickle down effect and it augers well for the countries in this meat grinder of a war.
We killed a symbol of terror, The symbol of terror....a day of justice for the families whose innocents this monster killed and gloated about!
Let us pray and hope that this changes the situation in terms of way forward as well.