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US Fails to Bring Osama bin Laden to Justice
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Shortly after taking office oin January 2005, US President Barack Obama ordered CIA director Leon Panetta to make the killing or capture of Osama bin Laden, leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, the top priority of the US war against Al-Qaeda.

Last week, President Obama authorised an operation to "get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice," the President said in a speech on 1 May 2011. A small team of Americans carried out the operation, and after a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden.

Despite President Obama's assertion that "justice has been done," the operation failed to capture bin Laden and bring him to a court of law. Bin Laden was thus never tried or found guilty of the crimes he was accused of and took responsibility for.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead

Filed under: 9/11 Afghanistan Assassination Justice Law Obama Osama Pakistan Terrorism USA War
 

Bay Lop

The photo shows General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, arm outstretched, shooting a prisoner who looked like a civilian, though he was actually a Viet Cong guerrilla. The man who was shot was Bay Lop, who had beheaded people, gunned down policemen, and killed the family of one of General Loan’s friends. That does not necessarily justify what Loan did, but when stripped of context, it looked like someone from the South Vietnamese national police gunning down some helpless guy, and that was not the case. Bay Lop was the leader of a sophisticated assassination team that was attempting to knock off all the top leaders [of South Vietnam], and General Loan was on their list.

http://failuremag.com/index.php/feature/article/saigon_execution/
Filed under: Assassination Bay Lop History Photography Pulitzer Viet Cong Vietnam War
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