Published in The Times on 5 May 2011

110505tt - Osama bin Laden : On the otherhand...

Description & Background

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. Zapiro's cartoon puts forward a number of questions to be answered and debated.

People in the cartoon

Osama bin Laden • Zapiro

Tags

International terrorism •Extrajudicial killings

Text in the cartoon

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

Links

• 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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