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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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Volume 95 Issue 57
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
Meryl Dakin Managing Editor “Tonight, I can report … that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.” President Barack Obama addressed the world Sunday night with this message. Bin Laden’s location was suspected in August. This week, military intelligence pinpointed it in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden was killed by Navy Seals in a firefight late Sunday night. The Southern Miss response Matt Saucier, junior human performance and recreation major and Sergeant in the Marine Corps, said he celebrated when he heard the news. “It was hard to believe at first,” he said. Saucier has made two tours in Iraq from 2005 to 2007, totaling 14 months in the country. “I’m happy. I had friends killed when I was over there. It makes me feel a little easier about everything to know he’s dead now.” Senior architectural engineering major Landon Pugh didn’t share Saucier’s excitement. Pugh, who served in the Navy as a detention guard at Guantanamo Bay, said he was more concerned with his homework Sunday night. “I went online to check, but honestly, it doesn’t make that much of a difference,” he said. “Just because the top person was killed doesn’t mean everything else is going to fall apart.” Chair of the political science department, Allan McBride, said it was certainly a day many Americans hoped would happen. “After 9/11, that was the guy we were trying to get, and he was apparently the guy who deserved to be gotten,” he said. “So, now we’ve got him. That’s a good thing, I guess.” However, McBride disagreed with the way bin Laden was “got-
ten.” “It would have done me good to see him standing up in court and being convicted, sentenced to life in prison, put away in a very small cell for a very long time,” he said. “When you fight against someone like that, you typically don’t want to go down to their level. And I think that’s to some extent what we’ve done.”
The struggle against terrorism is by no means over for the United States according to Bob Pauly, professor of international politics and development. “Al Qaeda and its affiliates are going to continue to try to undermine the United States,” he said. “Any opportunity they have, they will use. This is a significant victory in the battle in that larger war,
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People gather at the White House as President Barack Obama announces the death of Osama bin Laden during a late evening statement to the press Sunday in Washington, D.C.
but it’s most definitely not over.” A decade For students who vividly remember the Sept. 11 attacks, Sunday was the end of an era. Tanner Jones, a freshman accounting major from Purvis, Miss., said, “It’s the first real event
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I’ve seen the beginning and ending of in my lifetime. Certainly something I’ll remember forever.” Jones remembered the day al Qaeda struck the Twin Towers. “I was sitting in my fourth grade classroom when my principal came on the intercom,” he said.
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