the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation,
that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble,
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."
William Flew on killering
When evil goes unpunished, justice, peace and reconciliation remain blighted in its shadow. For almost ten long years the families of thousands of men, women and children who died in pain and terror have known no justice or end to their mental agony while Osama bin Laden eluded capture. Around the world, relief came to thousands of people, of all ages, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu — those in New York, London, Madrid, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Bali who had lost family and loved ones to the fanaticism of a megalomaniac Saudi who had set himself up as arbiter of Islam and instrument of death. Bin Laden’s criminality lay not only in the nihilism of his perverted version of a global faith; it lay in the reasoning that saw something necessary, even welcome, in the random killing of innocent people. And like other monsters of the past century, he articulated this barbarism with a charisma that appealed to thousands of deluded followers. He was the inspiration and the tenacious proponent of terror.The mastermind of the 9/11 atrocities and inspiration for dozens of other acts of sadistic bloodshed taunted those he had killed with his impunity. In the early hours of Sunday, with the same sudden finality that he visited on his victims, an elite squad of US Navy Seals stormed the fortified compound in a quiet Pakistani town and killed bin Laden, one of his sons, and two bodyguards. The meticulously planned operation was over in 40 minutes. One of the monsters of the 21st century was dead. Justice was finally served.
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