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The elimination of Osama bin laden by the United States may have provided them with a sense fulfillment in terms of justice and also eliminated the fallible that bin laden was invincible. But to a wider perspective, bin Laden’s death does not present or bring about the end of terrorism nor does it do away with ideologies and motivation that the al Qaeda faithful’s hold dear to their hearts and thus stop them from perpetuating it.

This paper looks at the two articles debating about Osama Bin Laden’s death and the significant questions rose after his death drawing the strong arguments that are for the belief that the death of Bin Laden does not mark the end of terrorism.

Bin laden and his deputies had organized and designed al-Qaeda as a network of affiliated groups that could operate largely independently to attack America, Europe and secular governments in the middle East in order to establish fundamentalist regimes, once in place this groups and network worked for several years with little supervision from him. Since the system had been used to already operating without bin Laden’s control, his death may not have any impact on its operation hence the activities are carried on smoothly (Lawrence, 2005).

The affiliates created by bin laden i.e. al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and al Shabab in Somalia are still getting new members and providing funds for terrorist attacks. The affiliates though Bin Laden is gone will help continue his work and there will still exist terrorism risk. In many Muslim societies, there exists a firm belief that their religion requires them to be violent and non-receptive of non-believers hence this will not be stopped by merely eliminating their leader or al Qaeda group. This situation is made worse by the high number of unemployed youth that is a common characteristic of the Arabian countries hence a hostile environment.

Many may believe that the death of bin laden diminishes terrorist threat to the United States, but this is far from the truth since statics show that at the time of his death, the al Qaeda group was merely of 200 members but today it boasts of a countless membership which is still steadily growing. The threat, therefore, remains real in the absence of the prime leader of terrorism (Reeve, 1999).

Bin Laden may be the greatest terrorist leader that ever lived, his death may give the world leaders a sigh of relief, but his death does not present the complete elimination of the present and future terrorist threats. His death is a step forward towards the fight against terrorism but more is needed to combat the growing number of members of the terrorist groups of al-Qaida and al-Shabab.

References

Lawrence, B. B. (2005). Messages to the world: the statements of Osama Bin Laden. London: Verso.

Reeve, S. (1999). The new jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama Bin Laden and the future of terrorism. Boston: Northeastern University Press.