Yes He is dead and No there is no virus

So enemy number 1 of the last 10 years was pronounced dead by the American President this morning/last night. Osama Bin Laden reportedly killed in an attack by "a small american team" in Pakistan, just a few kilometers from Islamabad. The leader of Al qaida had been hiding in a multimillion dollar compound and had been located a few months ago according to US intelligence. Like with everything else, we will have to take them at their word.

The Americans will undoubtely have to show the world some proof at some point (whether DNA results, pictures of the body or anything else) as they have done in previous deaths of prominent terrorists. I am still surprised it hasn't come out yet, maybe to keep the story running a little bit longer? To avoid the pictures being disrespectful and risking to angry followers that would like to get revenge? I would like to know. It is amazing that journalists are taking the words of a politician at face value without anybody asking for some piece of evidence. Conspiracy theories of course will never be totally silenced (Why was his body buried at sea, why order the attack now, is he really dead, Did they really kill him etc). But what if they are mistaken? It can happen to anybody. Not likely though.

A huge media  story that took over the internet pretty quickly. Apparently a neighbor twitted live as the assault took place and later realise he would be known forever "as the guy who liveblogged about the Osama raid without knowing it". But not everybody seems to have understood the news correctly or even known who this "usama guy" was. On Facebook, alot of people first thought Obama was dead (and got disappointed (!)), many were furious their reality tv show got cancelled for the "breaking news"  and others mixed everything together, either calling Osama Bin Laden a "nigger" or President Obama a muslim. The world out there is much more confused than I thought. 

Celebrations, jubilium, euphoria. Strong words to describe the killing of a man clearly hated by so many. Like this was some kind of an ending. Finally 9/11 has been avenged. Never mind that the "mastermind" was not the only one behind the attacks in the US or that he had probably little to do with today's international terrorism threats. This was much more symbolic than anything else. And Campaign material. It wont be the last we will hear of  it.

10 years already since this all started. This might have been an embarrassing decade for the American superpower but at least they won the battle of the mind. This was a pretty good PR campaign. Osama Bin Laden (written Oussama Ben Laden in French (?)so very tricky when working for a bilingual tv station), after Saddam, Hitler and Stalin was Satan. Who will be next?