Almost 10 years after the destruction of the World Trade Center and the attack on Pentagon, on May 1, 2011, Osama Bin Laden, the founder and the leader of AlQaeda was killed in the US Special Forces action, 35 miles out of Islamabad, Pakistan. It seems, that America is not going to sleep tonight. All the US Cable channels show nothing, but the celebrating crowds. Suddenly both Democrats and Republicans got unified and express their "joy" - however inappropriately this word may sound in such a moment associated with death.
One may only compare it to the images from Misrata or Benghazi when the Libyan Opposition celebrated the death of one of the Gaddafi's sons in a Nato air strike yesterday.
The death of "Number ONE" on the US Most Wanted list is a moment of a profound symbolic significance. It was a man who for 20 last years devoted himself to the destruction of the America and the Western way of life. He has failed.
AlQaeda is not yet defeated. Far from it. Quite possibly Bin Laden's death may not mean a lot in an actual fight with AlQaeda. There is a long fight ahead of us. But at least, the man who has been defying us and our efforts, who through the incendiary rhetoric was creating the ranks of new suicide bombers and AlQaeda fighters - is no more.
