The Muslim Leaders That U.S. Killed

By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 22 October 2011, 16:56 IST
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A fleet of four choppers slicing through the dark skies over Islamabad from a U.S. military base in Afghanistan finished the job code named 'Geronimo-E KIA' in which the United States killed its most wanted man, Osama bin Laden just 40 miles outside Pakistan's capital. Upon the end of this long and painful chapter, U.S. President Barack Obama saluted the U.S. commandos and said, "Job well done. The mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks which left nearly 3,000 people dead, Osama has been in FBI's lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists and was a major target of the United States in its War on Terror with $25 million bounty by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As the president once called, 'al-Qaeda's leader and symbol, was often termed as un-Islamic by many Islamic scholars; however, Michael Scheuer, in his famous book 'Osama bin Laden,' notes that Laden's 1998 fatwa was signed by fully credentialed Islamic scholars, thus giving it religious authority'. Laden in his fatwa called on the world Muslims to kill Americans and their allies both civilian and military and proclaimed that it's an individual duty for every Muslim.