Friday 6 May 2011

The World without Osama Bin Laden - A safer place?

So it comes to an end finally. It has been confirmed and now days on the world is getting use to the feeling of the world where Osama Bin Laden is no longer one of its living occupants. Justified in as many ways possible by evidence of all the horrific terror acts that he committed past, present and possibly future from information recovered at the scene of his demise.

I remember somewhere along the line a very long time ago that some important government official somewhere said on camera that the world would be a safer place when we are rid of the likes of Osama. Looking at what is following in the wake of his death, I do not see any single government going on to believe that we can sleep safer in our beds at night with the thought solidly in mind that he is no more.

In fact most of the nations who actively hunted him down as a fugitive from justice are on very high security alert. With ominous words sounding that we should expect reprisals in some form from his supporters or groups sympathetic to his causes, that is a bit scary when you consider that he single-handedly spawned an entire generation of terrorists who took global terror to a whole new level.

They have become very inventive and adaptable in their urban terror and they are taking the fight to the big security outfits who have out-thought them up-to-date, thereby thwarting almost every  major terror attack. The future looks bleak now,with governments now forced to downsize because of the economic recession, valuable resources and assets are being done away with to seek political gain and balance the books so to say.

How safe the world really is will be a question we will keep asking ourselves until we see where the choose to strike next and exactly when and how, one thing I can assure is I don't feel any safer even though Osama is gone, do you?

Monday 2 May 2011

Two sides to the Mirror of Terror

Yesterday it was reported to the entire world by the President of the United States of America that the elusive leader of the Al-Queada Movement Worldwide Osama Bin Laden had been located,trapped,caught,captured and eventually after resisting to be taken had been killed and eventually been buried at sea. So comes the end of an era, as so many said that justice had been served for so many who died at Ground Zero almost a decade ago - one side of the mirror.

The Al- Quaeda movement has gone beyond their late mythical leader and of all terrorists groups known in the recent past, the only reason why they are so feared is because of the scale on which they practised their weird art. They brought an entirely new definition to the word Global Terror after initial attacks on diplomatic missions in Africa belonging to the United States they made an eternal statement on 11th September,2001 when they hijacked four local American jetliners and flew two into the World Trade Centre( more specifically one each into the Two Towers). One into the Defence Headquarters the Pentagon and the fourth was crash landed by the passengers onboard who wrestled their captors and made sure that the jetliner did not reach it's destination which was the White House.

That brought the understanding of terror all the way into the 21st century and the War against Terror was born. Unfortunately with the demise of of their fabled leader yesterday one is led to believe true to their reputation they will strike again so looking into the mirror of terror when you believe that one side of it has been smashed we are now going to learn how potent the other side is without the mien of Bin Laden hanging over it.

For every city where he left his terror signature, the security outfits here will not sleep to easy not for any other reason than Osama Bin Laden was very successful in spawning a generation of individuals who might eventually turn out to be a lot more potent than he who has just been eliminated.......... we need to be ready.