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osama bin laden

May 20, 2011

Eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr addresses global peace gathering

Martin Luther King III has given a powerful address to the first-ever International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Kingston, Jamaica.
May 10, 2011

Episcopalians respond to 'rejoicing' over bin Laden killing

As some people in the USA and elsewhere took to the streets to celebrate the killing of Osama bin Laden, Episcopalians offered notes of caution and reflection.
May 8, 2011

Obama and Osama: A story for kids?

Explaining to children the irrationality of adult behaviour is always challenging, says Sande Ramage. But in the case of the killing of Osama Bun Laden it is almost an impossibility.
May 5, 2011

Archbishop of Canterbury questions killing of Bin Laden

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has said that the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US special forces makes him feel "uncomfortable".
May 5, 2011

Celebrating death (even Bin Laden's) demeans our humanity

So President Obama has decided that he will not release the image of Osama bin Laden’s body. The reason, he says, is that it could be used for propaganda purposes by terrorist organisations. How about the fact that making public the blood-stained and damaged body of a human being is just plain unpleasant, undignified and quite wrong?
May 4, 2011

Nairobi blast survivors meet bin Laden's death with prayer

The killing of Osama bin Laden has united survivors of the 1998 terrorist attack on the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in a compassionate response.
May 4, 2011

Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders respond on bin Laden

Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders have responded to the the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with varying degrees of relief, regret and caution.
May 3, 2011

Al-Qaida post-Bin Laden: what next?

The Salafi-jihadist movement is losing its recruitment pool in the Arab world, says Murad Batal al-Shishani, an Islamic groups and terrorism issues analyst. Al-Qaida and others' latest strategies look elsewhere, and the death of Osama Bin Laden will not affect these plans.
May 3, 2011

Bin Laden had little, and falling, Muslim support before his death

In the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, a survey of Muslim publics around the world found little support for the al-Qaida leader.
May 3, 2011

Justice not war: A 9/11 victim's relative's view

"I and my group of 9/11 victims' relatives hope we will take this opportunity to restore the US to the path of justice, not war," says Andrea LeBlanc in a moving article for the Guardian newspaper entitled 'America after Osama bin Laden'.