Osama bin Laden

America: An Empire In Decline (Part 2)

by Devon DB

This article discusses the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and its effects on US foreign policy. It also discusses the... more This article discusses the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and its effects on US foreign policy. It also discusses the Bush Administration's foreign policy from the attempted coup in Venezuela to the change in military doctrine of the war in Iraq, as well as the Color Revolutions in eastern Europe, ending with a brief discussion of the 2007 financial crisis.

La muerte de Bin Laden y el declive de la yihad global.

by Jesus Perez

Publicado en el número 398 de junio de 2011 de la revista "Fuerzas de Defensa y Seguridad" (defensa.com). No se trata de un artículo académico.

La muerte de Osama Bin Laden no se trata de un punto de inflexión, sino de un síntoma del largo declive de Al Qaeda La muerte de Osama Bin Laden no se trata de un punto de inflexión, sino de un síntoma del largo declive de Al Qaeda

A Death to Celebrate?: The Just-War Tradition and the Killing of Bin Laden

by Ronald Osborn

Commonweal, Vol.138, No.11, June 3, 2011 (cover story)

Was the killing of bin Laden a legitimate action? Most Americans have already concluded that it was. For those... more Was the killing of bin Laden a legitimate action? Most Americans have already concluded that it was. For those Christians who subscribe to just-war precepts, however, perhaps the most difficult requirement of the tradition is the demand that we mourn rather than celebrate the deaths of our foes, and that the occasion of killing be one of moral introspection rather than of unbridled enthusiasm or unexamined joy among those who claim justice for their side.

Insurgency in Afghanistan: Merging the War Against Drugs & the War Against Taliban

by Jessinta Tan

Master of Science assignment paper, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Afghanistan has produced close to 90 per cent of the world’s opium, the raw material from which heroin is made... more Afghanistan has produced close to 90 per cent of the world’s opium, the raw material from which heroin is made (Environment News Service, 2007). A weak Afghan government has created security vacuum that led to the impediment of economic development, forcing poor farmers to grow lucrative crops like poppy for cash. The drug trade has been a major source of income for the Taliban. Although the group reportedly banned opium poppy cultivation in late 1997, opium production in Afghanistan has increased. In 2001, British Prime Minister Tony Blair referred to the Taliban as “a regime founded on fear and funded on the drugs trade” (Perl, 2001, p. 3). Virtually all of Afghanistan’s opium poppy cultivation, morphine base and heroin processing laboratories are in Taliban-controlled areas. Afghanistan is where the war on terrorism and the war on drugs converge. This paper seeks to discuss experts’ views that the drug situation in Afghanistan is worsening, to examine the costs and benefits of battling Taliban insurgents through battling the drug trade in the country, and to explore ways of preventing the rise of a more dangerous insurgency because of financing from drug trafficking.

Order Fatwa on Terrorism; Osama Bin Laden, Hatred, Al Qaida, Al Qaeda by Dr. Tahir ul Qadri

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Assassinating Justly: Reflections on Justice and Revenge in the Osama Bin Laden Killing

by Roger Berkowitz

Assassinating Justly: Reflections on Justice and Revenge in the Osama Bin Laden Killing in Law, Culture & the Humanities Volume 7 Issue 3, October 2011

http://lch.sagepub.com/content/7/3/346.full.pdf+html

Assassination has always been part of war and in recent years it has played increasingly important roles in United... more Assassination has always been part of war and in recent years it has played increasingly important roles in United States military policy. The assassination of Osama bin Laden offers itself as an example of an assassination that nevertheless claims to be just. Comparing the bin Laden assassination with the assassination of Simon Petlura by Sholom Schwartzbard in 1927 and the kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, this article argues that assassinations, which under certain conditions are justified under international law, can also be just, but only when they are accompanied by the risk of a jury trial.

PRILOG BIOGRAFIJI OSAME BIN LADENA

by Radoslav Zaradić

Superpower Osama: Symbolic Discourse in the Indian Ocean Region after the Cold War

by Jeremy Prestholdt

Published in Christopher J. Lee, Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives.

This essay is an attempt to account for the popularity of Osama bin Laden imagery and its relation to deeper social... more This essay is an attempt to account for the popularity of Osama bin Laden imagery and its relation to deeper social and political frustrations. It traces both how Osama bin Laden became one of the most celebrated folk heroes in recent history and, just as important, how his symbolic manifestations became references for a great variety of grievances, ones often incommensurate with his agenda.

Osama became a powerful icon because of the symbolic exchange of 9/11 and because people interpolated the imagery of his actions into a diversity of national and transnational rhetorics of discontent. His image has appeared on everything from protest posters in Surabaya to mobile-phone screens in Amsterdam and graffiti in Rio de Janeiro. Osama T-shirts in Cape Town were captioned, 'Long Live'. In Peshawar and Niamey similar T-shirts labeled Osama, 'World Head' and 'My Hero'. In Caracas, a popular shirt bearing Osama’s image simply read, 'The Best'. This objectification of Osama suggests that in many parts of the world bin Laden imagery is far less contingent on his message than his mutability as an icon, or the ease with which his symbolic acts wrought an iconography that can be integrated into individual worldviews, local political discourses, and consumer desire.