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Castro terms Osama's killing "abhorrent"

Cuban leader warns Osama's killing would reap "hatred and vengeance" against the United States.

Afp May 05, 2011

HAVANA: Cuban leader Fidel Castro called the death of Osama bin Laden an "abhorrent" assassination, warning in an article Thursday that it would reap "hatred and vengeance" against the United States.

"Whatever actions may have been attributed to bin Laden, the assassination of an unarmed human being surrounded by his family constitutes an abhorrent act," he said, writing in the Cuban press.

Castro, the revolutionary icon who led the island nation for decades, warned that after an initial period of euphoria, the US public would wind up criticising the use of methods that "far from protecting citizens, ends up multiplying the feelings of hatred and vengeance against them."

"Assassinating him and sending him to the depths of the sea shows fear and insecurity, (and) turns him into a much more dangerous figure," he said of Bin Laden.

The mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States was shot dead early Monday by US commandos in a daring raid on his hideout deep inside Pakistan.

After initially saying Bin Laden was armed when he was shot, US officials have since corrected their initial account to say he was unarmed but resisting when a US Navy SEAL team shot him in the head and chest.

His Yemeni wife was shot in the leg, while three other men and a woman were killed in the lightning raid, which lasted less than 40 minutes and was carried out without the knowledge of the Pakistani government.

Castro, 84, said US President Barack Obama "has no way to hide the fact that Osama was executed in the presence of his children and wives."

"How will he prevent the women and children of the person who was executed extra-legally and without trial from explaining what happened?" he asked.

COMMENTS (2)

Rifat | 13 years ago | Reply In Indian Kashmir poisoning or firing a street dog even if he is mad is a cognizable offense but soldiers have impunity to kill humans wherever they like. Castro's concern speak about his concern for humanity. He has been a revolutionary, a man who led his nation to freedom but continues to cherish high values of humanity. He has rightly pointed out Obama dead can emerge as a leader more acceptable as Muhammad Maqbool Bhat emerged like a phoenix in 1990 six years after his hanging in Tihar Jail.

alf | 13 years ago | Reply Rightly said Castro,no wonder you are respected globally for what you stood for and now I am thinking what would the world be like for Obama if his own unarmed father was killed before his eyes?would he be a president? NO NO NO he would have become a terrorist himself.We can now understand why Hillary Clinton was looking so shocked,poor women was watching an unarmed old kidney patient being shot in front of his family.There is a BIG difference between Jungle's law and civilised world's law.TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.In today's world even dogs have some rights,even if the dog has pized all over your face.

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