{"id":417252,"date":"2011-05-04T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/reactions-trail-shooting-of-unarmed-bin-laden-burial\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:00:43","slug":"reactions-trail-shooting-of-unarmed-bin-laden-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/reactions-trail-shooting-of-unarmed-bin-laden-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions trail shooting of unarmed bin Laden, burial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The killing of Osama bin Laden when he was unarmed has raised concerns the U.S. may have gone too far in acting as policeman, judge and executioner of the world\u2019s most wanted man.<\/p>\n

But for several Muslim leaders, the more unsettling issue is whether the al Qaeda leader\u2019s burial at sea was contrary to Islamic practice.<\/p>\n

The White House said on Tuesday that bin Laden had resisted the U.S. team which stormed his Pakistan hideout and that there had been concerns he would \u201coppose the capture operation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Spokesman Jay Carney declined to specify what sort of resistance bin Laden offered but added: \u201cWe expected a great deal of resistance and were met with a great deal of resistance.
\u201cThere were many other people who were armed \u2026 in the compound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told German TV the operation could have incalculable consequences in the Arab world at a time of unrest there.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201dIt was quite clearly a violation of international law,\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a view echoed by high-profile Australian human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not justice. It\u2019s a perversion of the term. Justice means taking someone to court, finding them guilty upon evidence and sentencing them,\u201d Robertson told Australian Broadcasting Corp television from London.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis man has been subject to summary execution, and what is now appearing after a good deal of disinformation from the White House is it may well have been a cold-blooded assassination.\u201d
Robertson said bin Laden should have stood trial, just as World War Two Nazis were tried at Nuremburg or former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was put on trial at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague after his arrest in 2001.
\u201cThe last thing he wanted was to be put on trial, to be convicted and to end his life in a prison farm in upstate New York. What he wanted was exactly what he got \u2013 to be shot in mid-jihad and get a fast track to paradise and the Americans have given him that.\u201d
Gert-Jan Knoops, a Dutch-based international law specialist, said bin Laden should have been arrested and extradited to the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201dThe Americans say they are at war with terrorism and can take out their opponents on the battlefield. But in a strictly formal sense, this argument does not stand up,\u201d\u00a0 Knoops said.<\/p>\n

A senior Muslim cleric in New Delhi, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, said U.S. troops could have easily captured bin Laden.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica is promoting jungle rule everywhere, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan or Libya. People have remained silent for long but now it has crossed all limits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Son Had, spokesman for Jema\u2019ah Ansharut Tauhid, the Islamic group founded by Indonesian firebrand Abu Bakar Bashir, said it was clear that bin Laden had become a martyr.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Islam, a man who died in fighting for sharia will earn the highest title for mankind other than a prophet that is a martyr. Osama is a fighter for Islam, for sharia.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for many Muslim leaders the greater concern was bin Laden\u2019s burial at sea, not land.<\/p>\n

His body was taken to an aircraft carrier where U.S. officials said it was buried at sea, according to Islamic rites.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not the Islamic way. The Islamic way is to bury the person in land (if he has died on land) like all other people,\u201d said Saudi Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Al-Obaikan, an adviser to the Saudi Royal Court.<\/p>\n

Amidhan, a member of Indonesia\u2019s Ulema Council (MUI), the highest Islamic authority in the world\u2019s biggest Muslim society, said he was more concerned about the burial than the killing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBurying someone in the ocean needs extraordinary situation. Is there one?,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the U.S. can\u2019t explain that, then it appears just like dumping an animal and that means there is no respect for the man and what they did can incite more resentment among Osama\u2019s supporters.\u201d (Reuters\/NAN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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