A very interesting short piece by Robert Fisk who is always very good. I think he raises a number of very salient points concerning Bin Laden and his subsequent assasination.

Robert Fisk: The al-Qa'ida leader knew he was a failure. Now US has turned him into martyr - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent

Why kill him? Why do you give an order to assasinate an unarmed man? The gun culture has once again fed its way to the top and it seems that just as invading countries for no good reason is deemed quite acceptable, it is also quite acceptable to kill people arbitrarily. It seems that Bin Laden was able to take away all of America's morality and sense of 'right'. From the Patriot act, through to systematic torture, to Guantanamo Bay, to the wars, to this. It's a breathtaking fall and all within a decade. The worlds policeman becomes the biggest gangster overnight.

This final act could have been handled with far greater care and rather than America solving the riddle, for me at least, it casts an even greater shadow over the elite that make the decisions