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by Noam Chomsky
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May 6, 2011
It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial.
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We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.
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via Guernica / Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death
see
Mission Accomplished? Osama May Yet Haunt Obama by Felicity Arbuthnot
Chris Hedges: That’s An Act Of Murder
White House PSYOP Script Falls Apart by Sibel Edmonds
Elite Commandos or Assassins with Cameras? by Cameron Salisbury
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The hypocrisy is bewildering…
Thank you Professor Chomsky for expressing this so conciely.
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