Why Bin Laden Still Matters -- Newsweek
Al Qaeda never had more than a few hundred sworn members. The real danger was its ability to train and inspire jihadis around the world.
In late January, Osama bin Laden released an audiotape praising the Nigerian who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day 2009. “The message delivered to you through the plane of the heroic warrior Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a confirmation of the previous messages sent by the heroes of [September] 11th,” he said.
While the tape was proof that Al Qaeda’s leader was still alive, it also raised the question of whether he’s now only an irrelevant militant seeking to associate himself with even failed attacks originated by groups he doesn’t control.
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My Comment: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin once remarked derisively on how many army divisions did the Pope at Vatican City have at his command .... but 40 years later it was a Pope from Poland who was one of the key players that helped in the liberation of Eastern Europe from Communist control, and the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Every day that Osama Bin Laden walks around as a free man will only give him credibility and legitimacy to his cause .... and this is why he must be stopped .... captured if possible, assassinated by a drone strike if not. I personally prefer to see him in prison, tried and convicted in a court for crimes against humanity. While such a conviction may not dissuade his more ardent supporters, for everyone else they will see him for what he is, a mass murderer who deserves to be punished for his crimes.
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