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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces on Sunday as a triumph for Washington and its allies in their "war on terror."
"This is a resounding triumph for justice,...
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Mon May 2, 2011 2:55am EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrated the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces on Sunday as a triumph for Washington and its allies in their "war on terror."
"This is a resounding triumph for justice, freedom and the values shared by all democratic nations fighting shoulder to shoulder in determination against terrorism," Netanyahu said in a statement early on Monday.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel, which has cast its own struggle with Palestinian and Lebanese militants as an extension of the U.S.-led campaign against al Qaeda worldwide, gained from bin Laden's death.
"Al Qaeda has ceaselessly tried to penetrate Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank)," he told Israel's Army Radio, referring to Palestinian territories. "His interception has operational significance for us, too."
Israel had not contributed to the American commando raid that killed Bin Laden in Pakistan, and was informed of it half an hour before U.S. President Barack Obama made his official announcement on Sunday night, Lieberman said.
President Shimon Peres, Israel's elder statesman and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said Bin Laden had "met his end at the gallows." Peres described the death as a lesson about the self-destructiveness of violent extremism.
"Look at all of the murderers, all of those dictators and terrorists. They end up murdering themselves -- the real verdict of history, which to my regret takes a lot a time and exacts a lot of victims," he told Israel Radio."
(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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JRDKidd wrote:
The next objective of the international community and the UN is to ensure that any state that treats the UN with contempt and ignores international law should be brought into line without further prevarication or delay.
Any state that authorises its army to kill women, children and unarmed civilians must be subject to rigorous action by the free world. It is no longer enough to merely claim to be ‘democratic’ whilst killing civilians under the pretext of ‘security’ or collateral damage.
State-sponsored assassination is a crime and the killing of non-combatants is a war crime. Those who ministers who authorise such killings and those soldiers who commit them must be brought before the International Criminal Court, no matter how long that will take.
May 02, 2011 1:46am EDT -- Report as abuse
OCTheo wrote:
No man should celebrate the death of another.
Israel is not democracy, so Benjamin Netanyahu should not be celebrating.
And that US has spent over 1 Trillion Dollars, killed over a million people and destroyed the lives of millions of American families, Obama should now bring the soldiers home.
May 02, 2011 3:23am EDT -- Report as abuse
OCTheo wrote:
No man should celebrate the death of another.
Israel is not democracy, so Benjamin Netanyahu should not be celebrating.
And that US has spent over 1 Trillion Dollars, killed over a million people and destroyed the lives of millions of American families, Obama should now bring the soldiers home.
May 02, 2011 3:23am EDT -- Report as abuse
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