Yes, we should celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden

I REMEMBER travelling through Northern Ireland, indeed passing through the town of Omagh, on the national day of mourning held in Ireland in the wake of 9/11.

Yes, we should celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden

It was clear then, just as the attack on Omagh was the single worst act of terrorism in our history, the attack on the United States represented the single worst act of terrorism in the history of the planet.

It was hard to imagine the mentality that could fly an aeroplane into a building, deliberately seeking to secure thousands of deaths, knowing that every single one of the people you kill is an innocent casualty. There is no cause capable of justifying that kind of barbarity. People capable of doing things like have had to plumb depths of barbarity within themselves, and in the end become capable of anything. They are capable, given the resources and the know-how, of building an atomic bomb in the heart of a city — any random city — and detonating it themselves. They are capable of unleashing unspeakable diseases and pestilences on innocent people if they ever get hold of the methods of germ warfare.

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