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110505mg 11 05 05 5 May 2011 Mail & Guardian Arab Spring Revolution - Osama bin Laden no longer an influence?

A change of pace: From flying planes into skyscrapers as in Al Qaeda to the less violent toppling of governments with the use of social media as in the Arab Spring revolution. 'Holy war' approach replaced by Facebook and Twitter In Middle East and North Africa revolutions.

Flying planes into buildings !? OMG Thats sooo last decade!! g2g: busy toppling govt. Arab Spring Revolution Protest for Democracy

Arab Spring revolution Twitter Social media Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden's appeal had waned in Arab world
 
Osama’s brand of Islamism was already history
After Osama bin Laden: the Future of Al Qaeda and the Study of Terrorism

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110505tt 11 05 05 5 May 2011 The Times On the otherhand...

Osama bin Laden is finally no more. While most of the world has declared it a great moment, there are questions on the legality of how it was done.

On the otherhand he was a mass-murderer!..On the otherhand , US extrajudicial killings are atrocious!... On the otherhand, the world may be safer without him!...On the Otherhand, his matyrdom could incite more jihadist terror!... Onthe otherhand, the Arab spring uprisings had already made him irrelevant!.... on the otherhand

International terrorism Extrajudicial killings Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden: US responds to questions about killing's legality Doubts remain over manner in which al-Qaida figurehead died but US officials defend Barack Obama's action
The illegal killing of Osama Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden’s death proved what he said in life: that the United States couldn’t kill or arrest him within its own laws
Osama’s death exposes US ‘brutality’
Bin Laden’s last moments
Call it what you like, it's not justice
US: Bin Laden - a license to kill?
Targeted Killing Vindicated
Disclosure that Bin Laden Was Unarmed Has Critics Claiming a Violation of International Law
America had every right to assassinate Osama bin Laden – and to celebrate his death
America after Osama

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110503tt 11 05 03 3 May 2011 The Times Osama Bin Laden found and killed

Nine years and seven months after 9-11, Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of a US military operation. This is the single most noteworthy success the US has had in its war against Al Qaeda.

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