Osama Bin Laden and the Moral Paradox

by Yamin Zakaria, London “Despite the religious rhetoric and the bloody means, Bin Laden is a rational man. There is a simple reason why he attacked the US: American Imperialism. As long as America seeks to control the Middle-East, he and people like him will be its enemy” – (Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire) The conflict between

The Abbottabad inquiry: Nawaz Sharif’s Valid Demand

by Nasim Zehra The PML-N, whose fortunes in the recent months, marked by reactive, angry and dull politics and confronted by Asif Ali Zardari’s incredible political cunning, has been on a downward trajectory. However, in the post-Abbottabad operation period, Nawaz Sharif has responded to the national challenge that now confronts us in a statesmanlike fashion.

Legal Justifications for the American Attack in Abbottabad

by Idress Kamal Former Bush administration lawyer John Bellinger is surprised that the Obama administration hasn’t been forthcoming in presenting its arguments for the legality of the operation to kill Osama bin Laden: I can think of two possible reasons for the Administration’s silence. First, the White House may be feeling snake-bitten after having to correct some of

How Would the Americans React if George Bush is Killed by Iraqi Commandos in America?

by Noam Chomsky It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In