Is it victory to celebrate the death of another.. Would it have been more promising to capture and hold him accountable for his actions.. Should we be jumping the gun and shouting from the roof tops when a death is more likely to bring ramifications down upon us?
Osama Bin Laden, Adolf Hitler both declared dead on May 1
Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler share a towering reputation for evil - and also an anniversary.
Both were declared dead on May 1.
Late on May 1, 1945 - about as late as President Obama's TV announcement Sunday - German radio announced that Hitler had fallen "fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany."
He had actually committed suicide the day before.
In some cultures May 1 is the official beginning of summer. In many places, May Day is also Labor Day, a celebration of the working man.
May 1 is also the anniversary of President Bush's ill-conceived 2003 Mission Accomplished speech, prematurely announcing an end to combat in Iraq.
Obama, who might have used the words in his TV address, did not.
Compare and Contrast: Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler
1st Sept 1939: Adolf Hitler invades an unsuspecting Poland that started one of the most devastating wars in the history of the world. From this attack, Hitler went on to conquer other great nations in Eastern Europe. Hitler’s reign of terror resulted into the death of millions of unfortunate Jews living in Eastern Europe and lives of countless American soldiers.
11 Sept 2001: Two planes hit the world trade center, a plane hits the Pentagon and a plane crashes in Pennsylvania. It is immediately thought that terrorism is the cause of these disasters. Later, Osama bin Laden is named the prime suspect in the first attack on American soil since the Pearl Harbor attack in World War II. This tragedy resulted in the death of 5000 American fire fighters, businessmen and other civilians.
Though these events seem rather different, there are some connections in the main parties involved: Hitler and Osama bin Laden. These two men are responsible for a lot of deaths and devastations in the past 100 years, and they both had the same goal: to take over the world. First to understand why they wanted to take over the world, we must first understand their background.
Hitler was born in 1889 in Braunau, Austria. Hitler’s early childhood was fairly normal as he received high marks in elementary school. After the death of his younger brother Edmund, he went from a confident, outgoing boy who found school easy to a morose, sullen boy who constantly battled his father and teachers. In 1903, Hitler’s father died and he dropped out of school two years later at the age of 16. Hitler moved to Vienna in 1907 where he tried to pursue his dream of being an artist. He wanted to attend the Academy of Fine Arts but he failed the entrance exam twice. For thirty years he was a failure; then almost overnight a local celebrity and eventually the man around whom the world policy revolved. This sudden growth of popularity, led to Hitler’s tyrannical nature.
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In a 1998 interview he gave his birth date as 10th March 1957. His father Muhammad Awad bin Laden was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi Royal family. The father was a fairly devoted Muslim, very humble and generous. He was a very dominating personality. He insisted to keep all his children in one premises. He had a tough discipline and observed all the children with strict religious code.
Bin Laden believes that the restoration of the Sharia law will set things right in the Muslim world and that all other ideologies – socialism, democracy and communism must be opposed. Bin Laden has consistently
dwelt on the need for violent jihad to right what he believes are injustice
against Muslims.
In the final days of WW II, at the fall of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long time mistress Eva Braun. Facing capture from the Soviet forces less than two days later, they both committed suicide.
Since 2001, Osama bin Laden and his organization have been major targets of the United States’ war against terrorism. Bin Laden and fellow al- Qaeda leaders are believed to be hiding near the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan’s federally administered tribal areas.
Although the two historical figures posses different ideologies, the
similarities between them including their desire to control and wanting to
do good for their people, can and did result in massive devastation. Hitler
worshipped Germany as Bin Laden worshipped Allah. They are evil – and evil as such that they wanted to destroy a race of people who simply sought their goals of life, freedom, liberty and happiness. These God given rights have been ringing in the ears of both sets of victims who have been terrorized by these men. While one lives only in the history books, the other still threatens the rights of humankind.
Osama him self:
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011[1][2][3]) was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family and the founder of the jihadist organization al-Qaeda, responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. As a result of his dealings in and advocacy of violent extremist jihad, Osama bin Laden lost his Saudi citizenship and was disowned by his billionaire family.
Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings. Since 2001, Osama bin Laden and his organization had been major targets of the U.S. War on Terror. Bin Laden and fellow al-Qaeda leaders were believed to be hiding near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan in an operation conducted by American military forces and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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