Reflections by Comrade Fidel
THE ASSASSINATION OF OSAMA
BIN LADEN
Those persons who deal with these issues know that on
September 11 of 2001 our people expressed its solidarity to the
We also immediately opened our country’s airports to
the American airplanes that were unable to land anywhere, given the chaos that
came about soon after the strike.
The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban
Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the
life of civilians, is well known.
Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle
against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist
action that could cause the death of innocent people. Such behavior, which has been maintained for
more than half a century, gives us the right to express our views about such a
sensitive matter.
On that day, at a public gathering that took place at
Ciudad Deportiva, I expressed my
conviction that international terrorism could never be erradicated through
violence and war.
By the way, Bin Laden was, for many years, a friend
of the
In the carefully drafted speech announcing Bin
Laden’s death Obama asserts as follows:
“…And yet we know that the worst images are those that
were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table.
Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or
their father. Parents who would never know the feeling
of their child's embrace. Nearly 3,000 citizens taken
from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.”
That paragraph
expressed a dramatic truth, but can not prevent honest persons from remembering
the unjust wars unleashed by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan, the
hundreds of thousands of children who were forced to grow up without their
mothers and fathers and the parents who would never know the feeling of their
child’s embrace.
Millions of
citizens were taken from their villages in
Still engraved in
the minds of hundreds of millions of persons are also the horrible images of
human beings who, in Guantánamo, a Cuban occupied territory, walk down in silence, being
submitted for months, and even for years, to unbearable and excruciating
tortures. Those are persons who were
kidnapped and transferred to secret prisons with the hypocritical connivance of
supposedly civilized societies.
Obama has no way
to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are
now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of
almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national
dignity offended and its religious traditions desecrated.
How could he now
prevent the women and children of the person who was executed out of the law
and without any trial from explaining what happened? How could he prevent those
images from being broadcast to the world?
On January 28 of
2002 the CBS journalist Dan Rather reported through that TV network that on September
10 of 2001, one day before the attacks against the
Having
assassinated him and plunging his corpse into the bottom of the sea are an
expression of fear and insecurity which turn him into a far more dangerous
person.
The
Fidel Castro Ruz
May 4, 2011
8:34 p.m.