Opinion Pieces

The Peril of Hasty Triumphalism and Osama bin Laden’s Death

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Abstract

On May 1, 2011 the headlines of a large number of newspapers and TV channels around the world were saying “justice has been done”. Those were the words used by the US President Barack Obama to announce to the world the killing of Osama bin Laden, the number one terrorist on the US most-wanted list.

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Al-QaedaBin Laden
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 2 Issue: 1
  • DOI: 10.15664/jtr.181
  • Submitted on 31 Oct 2011
  • Published on 13 May 2011
  • Peer Reviewed