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Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told German TV the operation could have incalculable consequences in the Arab world at a time of unrest there.

“It was quite clearly a violation of international law,” .

It was a view echoed by high-profile Australian human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson.

“It’s not justice. It’s a perversion of the term. Justice means taking someone to court, finding them guilty upon evidence and sentencing them,” Robertson told Australian Broadcasting Corp television from London.

“This man has been subject to summary execution, and what is now appearing after a good deal of disinformation from the White House is it may well have been a cold-blooded assassination.”

Robertson said bin Laden should have stood trial, just as World War Two Nazis were tried at Nuremburg or former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was put on trial at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague after his arrest in 2001.

“The last thing he wanted was to be put on trial, to be convicted and to end his life in a prison farm in upstate New York. What he wanted was exactly what he got – to be shot in mid-jihad and get a fast track to paradise and the Americans have given him that.”

http://www.reuters.com/

November 13, 2009

9/11 mastermind to have civilian trial near Ground Zero
Nico Hines
Five Guantanamo Bay detainees alleged to have masterminded the September 11 attacks are to be taken to the United States to stand trial in a civilian court within a few hundred metres of Ground Zero, it was announced today.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged accomplices will be brought on to US soil for trial as part of President Obama’s pledge to close down the detention centre in Cuba.

The Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed the five men will be transferred to the US mainland from Guantanamo Bay as soon as the necessary legal preparation has been made.

He said that the decision to try the men in Manhattan “a few blocks away” from the site of the World Trade Center was a “fundamental tenet of American jurisprudence”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk

Maybe in three years …..

Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph; Obama Increasingly Concerned No Good Would Come from It
May 04, 2011 7:07 AM

President Obama is increasingly doubtful that there’s a compelling reason to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, ABC News has learned.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/

Last December, Fort Collins police killed an unarmed man who “made a threatening gesture.”

He was an escaped felon, whom the police had gotten a tip about. They showed up at his house at 11pm and banged on the door. He came out of the house holding a flashlight and the police shot him eight times in the chest with a .45 . A police inquiry cleared the officers of any wrongdoing.

Two White House directed assassinations in the Middle East.

The commander of NATO forces in Libya has denied the attack on a building inside Muammer Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound was an attempt on the leaders life.

http://www.euronews.net/

They just wanted to kill him a little bit.

Yesterday :

LONDON: US President Barack Obama watched the real action unfold live on a TV screen as a US commando gunned down Al Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in a safe house in Abbottabad in Pakistan early Monday. He broke the news to the world later that the US Navy Seals had taken the world’s deadliest terrorist.

The footage of the battle in bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout is said to show one of his wives acting as a human shield to protect him as he blasted away with an AK47 assault rifle.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/

WASHINGTON (AFP) – One of Osama bin Laden’s wives acted as a human shield in an unsuccessful bid to save the Al-Qaeda leader’s life before he was killed in a raid by US special forces, a top US official said Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Earlier today :

May 3, 2011 – Washington

White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan has said that the US Navy Seal team that killed Osama bin Laden Sunday in Pakistan would have captured Al Qaeda’s leader alive if it was possible.

“If we had the opportunity to take bin Laden alive, if he didn’t present any threat, the individuals involved were able and prepared to do that,” Brennan told reporters.

http://www.andhranews.net/

Later today :

Claims that the al-Qaeda leader had died while firing an automatic weapon at commandos were withdrawn, with President Barack Obama’s spokesman admitting “he was unarmed”. A dramatic description of bin Laden using his wife as a “human shield” and forcing her to sacrifice her life also proved to be false. The woman was still alive and was taken into custody with several of the terrorist’s children.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The US press is burying this story. For the first time in my adult life, I am not proud of America.

“Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee”

About 40,000 Americans die in automobile accidents every year.  On average, about 64 Americans are killed by tornadoes per year.

http://spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/newm.html