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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Osama bin Laden helps Obama in the election campaign


OnMay it's a year ago that the elite soldiers of the U.S. Navy Seals Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad (Pakistan) killed. U.S. President Obama then celebrated his greatest triumph. The "Situation Room" at the White House the night of 2 May 2011: There is a tense atmosphere. Surrounded by his closest advisers sees the U.S. president at the center position, as his elite soldiers stormed bin Laden's villa. Now is campaigning in the U.S. - and the death of Osama bin Laden's more important than ever for Obama. Obama came in with the night commando action at high risk. A year later, he now hopes the political dividends - and brags in the election campaign with the killing of most wanted terrorists. "The commander is given a chance to make the right decision," begins an Internet video, the Obama campaign released a few days ago. It praises the former president Bill Clinton have the courage of his successor, the eulogy is backed by green night-vision shots of using photos of a brooding and Obama. "He had to decide. And this is a president hired, "Clinton lectured. Then ask the makers of the video, the crucial question: How would Mitt Romney traded in this situation, the most likely for the Republicans in the election on 6 November compete against Obama? The answer comes in the form of a statement, Romney was quoted as four years ago in the U.S. media: "It's not worth it to put heaven and earth in motion, and spend billions of dollars to catch just one person." Obama's campaigners know only too well that bin Laden for the people of the United States was more than just "one person". In the diffuse war on terror after the September 11 September 2001, the bearded al-Qaida leader an enemy of flesh and blood dar. The attacks of the terrorist network with hijacked planes on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC offset of the invincible feeling superpower a deep shock. The former Republican President George W. Bush gave this advice, bin Laden must be caught - dead or alive. Bush's successor, Obama did the job. "Justice is done enough," said the president, as he his countrymen the news of the death of bin Laden brought. A few hours earlier had helicopter about two dozen soldiers of the elite Navy SEALs under the cover of darkness to store property in Abbottabad flew .The fighters stormed the two-story house and shot bin Laden, the whole operation took just 40 minutes. The body of Al-Qaeda chief was taken in the Arabian Sea on a U.S. aircraft carrier cruising and buried at seaOn the anniversary of killing bin Laden on Wednesday broadcasts of TV channels NBC interview, in which the U.S. president can be in the "Situation Room", the key moments of the use before the eyes of the electorate once again to reminisce. One year after bin Laden's death start Obama another "commando action", commented the online magazine "Politico": "A large-scale public relations campaign, which aims to increase with the Bin Laden used the re-election chances of President. "The Republicans reacted angrily to Obama's handling of the calculated killing of terrorist leaders. "We are saddened that the President of the United States politicized this event," said Romney's campaign team. "It is not fitting for the commander in chief." Obama in the polls, voters in the high level of competence to certify national security - an issue where the Republicans usually score. "The death of bin Laden is one of the reasons for it," says Thomas Mann of the Brookings renowned. Obama will win the election but not why. In November, it will go mainly to the sluggish economy.

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