How Do You Interrogate A Dead Man?
Commentary By Ron Beasley
The wingers are outraged. Why? Because Sen. Patrick Leahy said there was no reason to interrogate Osama bin Laden if he's captured. This was a stupid thing for Leahy to say but the outrage is just as stupid.
The writers of fiction know it, movie makers know it and politicians know it. What is it you ask? A hero can only be as good as the villain is bad. In other words to push the War On Terror and look like a hero the western world needed a villain - they needed Osama the villain to make them look like heroes. But Osama bin Laden is dead and has been for years.
This week, still more questions have been raised with the publication in America and Britain of a book called Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?
Written by political analyst and philosopher Professor David Ray Griffin, former emeritus professor at California's Claremont School of Theology, it is provoking shock waves - for it goes into far more detail about his supposed death and suggests there has been a cover-up by the West.
The book claims that Bin Laden died of kidney failure, or a linked complaint, on December 13, 2001, while living in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains close to the border with Waziristan.
His burial took place within 24 hours, in line with Muslim religious rules, and in an unmarked grave, which is a Wahhabi custom.
The author insists that the many Bin Laden tapes made since that date have been concocted by the West to make the world believe Bin Laden is alive. The purpose? To stoke up waning support for the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When George W. Bush said he didn't think about Osama much it was because he knew he was dead. But Osama was Bush's villain and had to remain alive. How far down does the conspiracy go? Does Leahy know Osama is dead? Do his critics?
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