The Peril of Hasty Triumphalism and Osama bin Laden’s Death

Authors

  • Eugenio Lilli

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.181

Keywords:

Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden

Abstract

On May 1, 2011 the headlines of a large number of newspapers and TV channels around the world were saying “justice has been done”. Those were the words used by the US President Barack Obama to announce to the world the killing of Osama bin Laden, the number one terrorist on the US most-wanted list.

Author Biography

Eugenio Lilli

Eugenio Lilli is currently a PhD student  at the King’s College’s War Studies Department. His research focuses on the history of US foreign policy and on the impact of the Obama administration on the US Global War on Terror.

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Published

2011-05-13

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011)

Section

Opinion Pieces

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