No, Pakistan, It is Not "Beside the Point"
From Pakistan's foreign minister: "Who did what is beside the point ... This issue of Osama Bin Laden is history."
Not for his victims.
When Charles Muriuki heard that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, he rushed to the memorial park which now stands on the site of what used to be the US embassy in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
His mother was one of the more than 200 people killed when al-Qaeda operatives blew up the US mission on 7 August 1998. Like her, most of the victims were Kenyan ...
And when you read numbers like "more than 200 killed," never forget that this is always a fraction of the number of lives destroyed in a mass-casualty terrorist attack. This report from one of the hospitals--just one--that treated casualties in the wake of the Istanbul bombing suggests what each item in the list I posted yesterday really meant. And that was a very incomplete list.
No, I don't think Pakistan's role in this is "beside the point."
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Jan '11
Re: No, Pakistan, It is Not "Beside the Point"
I guess their official statement runs along the lines of "We did not. Have. Relations. With. That. Man. Mr Bin Laden."
Jan '11
Re: No, Pakistan, It is Not "Beside the Point"
They're very surprised. What else can they say?
Jun '10
Re: No, Pakistan, It is Not "Beside the Point"
"I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything." -- Bart Simpson
Sep '10
Re: No, Pakistan, It is Not "Beside the Point"
Yet another reason why our excessive solicitousness with regard to offending them is so cowardly.