Was Osama Bin Laden's Assassination Justified

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Osama Bin Laden claimed the support of thousands around the world while causing terror around the globe. The Al Qaeda leader was a supporter of all things violent and was guided by his Islamic beliefs. Osama Bin Laden’s assassination was the result of years of terrorization, oppression, and persecution that aggregated to overall justification of his death, however america has been criticized for the violation of civil rights and the vulgar celebration and assassination of a considered “figure head” in the muslim community. A team of 25 SEALs were responsible for the assassination. They were said to have raided his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan at 12:30 A.M on May 2, 2011(brown para 1.) The mission was named Neptune Spear and the raid lasted about 40 minutes; 5 people including Osama Bin Laden, were killed. These were just minor actions of the overall planning put into this assassination. Years of planning and many of america’s greatest resources went into the assassination of Osama Bin Laden and it all ended with only 4 words, “Justice has been done.”

Although there are many points to the controversy of wether or not the assassination was justified or not, the reasoning and evidence that support the opinion of it being justified are far more precise and tower over other
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These are the individuals that pictured him as the “figure head” and looked up to him for religious and political opinions or beliefs(Jerusalem Post para 4.) They simply believe what Laden did was nothing but justified and that he did it for the good of their people. Some individuals even consider it as elderly abuse and that he was just acting in self defense. Out of the millions of conspiracies that Osama Bin Laden was cruelly tortured and that the real truth behind his death had not been revealed, it simply show the pathetic efforts of these people to find excuses and to vindicate what he

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