YOUNGER readers will not remember the killing of Reinhard Heydrich in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War.
The retribution was swift.
Sadly, hundreds, if not thousands, of Czechs were murdered by the Nazis in revenge.
The received wisdom at the time was that it was simply not worth it to kill one man at the cost of so many lives.
Could the same thing happen with the killing of Osama bin Laden? He must have been fairly old and we don’t even know if he was in day-to-day command of al Qaida. I doubt it very much.
Apparently, after 9/11, al Qaida was broken up into small autonomous cells.
It remains to be seen how many innocent people will die because of the US obsession with Osama bin Laden.
Hugh Pender, Darlington.
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