Rule of law or law of the jungle? “سيادة القانون أو شريعة الغاب؟”

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Bin Laden’s Legacy: Options for Muslims: بن لادن وراثي : خيارات … : Bin Laden and the US leadership had one thing common; the misguided belief that; ‘End justifies the means’. But if we want to preserve our humanity, it nerve does. The Muslims may respond to the present crisis in two ways; either to follow the clear, unambiguous teachings and guidance from Qur’an and Sunnah to be successful in this and next world by attaining peace with dignity and honour or blindly follow the path leading to destruction by adhering to the concocted irrational pseudo ideologies of extremists satisfying their ambitions and desires. Option A: is rational, Option B is Irrational, emotional response ….Read full …

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Rule of law or law of the Jungle?

Bin Laden’s killing could spark a chain of violence unless Obama uses new-found political clout to effect real change: By Patrick Seale, Special to Gulf News.

The killing of Osama bin Laden on 1 May by a team of US Navy Seals sends a brutal message to the world that the execution of America’s enemies takes precedence over any consideration of morality or international law. For daring to attack the United States — an act of lèse majesté, the medieval crime of violating majesty — AlQaida’s founder had to be hunted down and exterminated, however long it took and at whatever the cost. Might is right.

Other governments will note the example set by America—an example that might also be copied by non-state actors, and even by aggrieved citizens. After all, Americans are not alone in having national interests, legitimate grievances and enemies they wish to bury. Others, too, can claim the right of self-defence, overriding legal or ethical constraints.

Israel has been doing so for decades. As a matter of deliberate policy, it has carried out numerous extra-judicial killings of its political enemies, and appears to have no qualms about violating the sovereignty of other countries. In a recent blog, the American lawyer John Whitbeck reports that General Shaul Mofaz, a former Israeli chief of staff known for his tough tactics, has claimed the credit for inspiring America’s assassination strategy. Mofaz is now chairman of the Knesset’s foreign affairs committee.

If states can resort to terrorism with impunity in order to kill their enemies, political leaders must be prepared to face the same rough ‘justice’ at the hands of the followers, friends or relatives of their victims. What if a hit team of Iraqi Bathists, for example, seeking to avenge the wanton destruction of their party, their army and their country, were to track down and kill George W. Bush, Tony Blair and, more particularly, the neo-con ‘architect’ of the Iraq war, Paul Wolfowitz? Would that be terrorism or justice? What if a Pashtun tribal leader were to decide that the director of the CIA should pay with his life for the drone attacks that have killed hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians in the tribal areas of Pakistan? Would that be terrorism or justice?

Would America not have been better served had it upheld the rule of law in Abbottabad rather than resorting to the law of the jungle?

Terrible and tragic as was the fate of the 3,000 victims of 9/11, they are not the only ones to be mourned. In seeking to punish Bin Laden’s AlQaida for its attack on America’s heartland, the United States waged wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan—wars which are thought to have caused about a million deaths, not to mention the wounded and the displaced, and all those whose lives have been shattered by the massive disturbance and material destruction of these conflicts. The dead from these misguided wars cry out for vengeance from the grave. Whether they are Iraqis, Afghans or Pakistanis, they, too, are mourned.

Just as America’s outrageous torture of ‘unlawful combatants’ in Iraq and elsewhere gave a blank cheque to Arab tyrants and others to torture their own citizens, so the assassination of America’s number one enemy will encourage others to resort to the same lawless methods.

He appears to have been gunned down in front of his family. His 12-year-old daughter witnessed the scene. His wife was shot in the leg and another woman was killed. Bin Laden did not hide behind them or use them as human shields. He was unarmed. Bin Laden may have been loathed and feared as a terrorist, but many will see the way he was shot as a ‘hit’—an assassination pure and simple.

What if American Special Forces have surrounded his house, once they had discovered where he was hiding, and asked the Pakistani authorities to arrest him and hand him over for trial? That would have had the great advantage of not violating Pakistani sovereignty and of not causing grave offenceto the Pakistani army and intelligence services, as well as to public opinion in that country. Pakistani officials have described the American raid as “unauthorised and unilateral,” while the army has warned that any repeat of such an operation would affect relations with the United States. It is likely that Pakistan will now reduce its anti-terrorist cooperation with the US and seek instead to strengthen its ties with China. It will certainly continue to befriend Afghan jihadist groups so as to have allies there to defend its cause against India, once US forces withdraw.

US President Barack Obama has made a meal out of this shabby episode, milking it for all it is worth. He has claimed the credit for personally ordering the CIA to find Bin Laden. We were told that he then took the ‘gutsy’ decision to attack the compound where he was living. The President followed the assassination in real time and enjoyed wild applause when it proved successful. He visited Ground Zero, paid tribute to the fire-fighters, and decorated the Navy Seals. His popularity has soared and his chances of re-election have been greatly enhanced.

In my (no doubt minority) view, Obama must now redeem himself for the killing by putting his heightened prestige to good effect. He should announce an early withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, call a halt to drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen; invite China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran to form an Afghan contact group to sponsor urgent and intensive negotiations between President Hamid Karzai’s government and the Taliban, with a view to the formation of a national unity government. It would also be greatly to America’s advantage—both politically and financially—to reduce its military presence in the Arab world. Its many bases in the Gulf, in particular, serve little purpose. They merely exacerbate local tensions, especially those between the Arabs and Iran.

Above all, if the United States is to regain some goodwill in the Arab and Muslim world, Obama must have the courage to stand up to Israel’s right-wing government and its many American friends and lobbyists. Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu is due in Washington later this month. He has been invited to address a joint session of Congress. This should be Obama’s opportunity to upstage him with a clear statement that America will use all its influence and all its power to bring to birth a viable and independent Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza, with its capital in occupied

East Jerusalem, living at peace and security side-by-side with Israel.

The American President knows very well what needs to be done. He must be ready to use his new-found political capital to draw the poison from a conflict that has claimed countless victims and plagued the world for more than six decades. It is America’s failure to do so that has helped create the Bin Laden’s of this world.

Patrick Seale is a leading British writer on the Middle East. His latest book is The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East.

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