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Death of Bin Laden and the New Direction of American Policy

The announcement of Bin Laden’s killing came to serve Obama in the next presidential elections, as it seems that the decision-makers in America want to keep him in office for another term. This aim is indicated by the American administration’s insistence on undertaking the operation single-handedly; Washington mentioned that it executed the operation without the help of the Pakistani army and security services. Also, Obama announced the success of the operation in person and deemed it as one of his major achievements.

The most important aim for America was to change the image of the Muslims and the Arabs in particular after the series of revolutions that had adopted democracy and secularism as a banner and as content. Attributes such as “the cradle of terrorism” and “terrorism production lines” are no longer suitable and conducive for the new approach, which has been meticulously planned for the region to alienate it from its Islam. America chose this timing that coincided with the fall of the German leader Hitler, the icon of Nazism, to herald the new phase of post-terrorism, once its top icon was eliminated, namely the phase of democracy in its quality as the alternative to the police-rule which dominated the region for decades and which was sponsored by the West and whose presence in the current format impedes the region’s adherence to the Western values in their new cloak.