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Tanzania: World Must Be On Alert Despite Osama’s Death
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Original Post Date: 2011-05-07 Time: 18:00:03 Posted By: News Poster
As we all wake up to the fact that indeed, Osama bin Laden, a man viewed by US as the world’s most dreadful terrorist, is dead, it is important to delve into the significance of his elimination, not only to the United States, but to the world at large.
We in this country had every reason to consider bin Laden an enemy. The attack on our soil of the US embassy, off Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road in Dar es Salaam on August 7, 1998, ended up killing 10 innocent Tanzanians and injuring scores of others in a truck bombing that was linked to Al-Qaeda, a terrorist outfit under his charge.
In Nairobi, Kenya, on the same day and time, another truck bomb, also linked to terrorists financed by bin Laden’s Al-Qaida, exploded at the US embassy there, killing 224 people!
Last year, on July 12, Al-Shabaab terrorists, also said to be associated with bin Laden’s organisation, bombed a Somali restaurant in Kampala, killing 74 people who were watching the World Cup.
The killing of innocent East Africans by people who have a bone to pick with “American imperialism”, even if we were to be harbouring any reservation regarding the way US does certain things in some parts of the world, cannot, by any stretch of understanding, endear us to the likes of Osama bin Laden.
Terrorists operating at the behest of the man who featured the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) list of the “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” have managed to put the whole world under siege. No one anywhere feels safe anymore!
Following the September 11, 2001 bombing of the World Trade Centre by Al-Qaeda-sponsored suicide plane hijackers, who killed close to 3,000 people, the world has never been the same.
Travellers have to contend with airport security checks that can easily be confused with sheer harassment! And the blame goes back to Osama bin Laden and his dreaded Al-Qaeda. What is more, the activities of the organisation he led gave a bad reputation to Islam – with some associating it, and people who bear Muslim names, to terrorism – while this religion’s very name embodies the word and message of peace!
Much as we view it as immoral to celebrate death – we would rather he were captured and made to answer for his crimes in an international court – we fail to conjure up a scenario of many a tear rolling across the world for Osama.
The big question, however, now is: What is next after the elimination of the man who had come to be viewed as the key architect of international terrorism? Will it be over, now he is dead and buried?
The answer, of course, is No. Lest we forget, there had been even been suggestions that some groups carrying out terrorist activities in some parts of the world would claim association with Al-Qaeda even where no such links existed.
The idea was to use the name to inspire terror into their victims, so they don’t dare fight back unless they are ready to battle it out with the “powerful” bin Laden!
Who knows, the world might soon be witness to acts of terrorism carried out ostensibly by operatives out to avenge the killing of “their” leader.
The world, instead of sitting back in relaxation now that the world’s “Terrorist Number 1” is dead, should remain as vigilant, while it addresses the root causes of terrorism.Yes, that should actually be the major concern. We all must ask ourselves: What brings to fore the bin Ladens and the suicide bombers of this world?
For surely, people don’t just suddenly turn to killers, and suicide killers at that, just because somebody called bin Laden has given instructions that they go on a mission to blow themselves up in the process of killing fellow humans.
