Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Politics – Region: USA, grade: 1, 7, University of Leicester, language: English, abstract: When in May 2011 American TV networks first announced the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, the nation-wide scenes of publicly expressed joy and relief witnessed thereafter may have seemed to some strikingly reminiscent of that other memorable day in mid-August 1945 when American citizens could at long last celebrate victory over the Japanese Empire in World War II. However, one might argue, is it possible that popular jubilation over Bin Laden’s death might ultimately not also have reflected some kind of premature or even false belief in Al-Qaeda’s simultaneous and permanent demise as a functioning terrorist organization as well?
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