This is simply an excellent article by Michael R. Miller as it, in my estimation, brilliantly makes the analogy of how the Israelis kidnapped Eichmann so that he could stand trial to answer charges of his involvement in the murder of millions of Jews during World War II while contrasting that to how the US made sure that bin Laden was never going to see the inside of a courtroom by having him, like something from a Godfather movie, sleep with the fishes for all time at the bottom of the sea. As Mr. Miller correctly notes, there were "mountains of evidence" which directly connected Eichmann to the Holocaust while conversely there appears to be no evidence at all linking bin Laden to the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.

The contrast between these two events is just stunning to behold. One has to wonder in the death of the alleged bin Laden how many other ways there could be in defining the word cover-up. And yet there are so many Americans who are so quick and ready to believe what the US government and the military has told them about this most highly suspicious event.

This is an article that deserves to be printed in such places as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek and other mainstream publications.

This is a good and needed article, however I must point out that the carnival type celebrations were primarily US ones so far or at least the ones given so much play in the media. Maybe too much US exceptionalism is still at work.

There are the rules, and then there are the exceptions (the USA for one) to the rule.

Michael,
This was not a real event that deserves to be taken seriously. It was just another movie moment, a media event. The Hollywood version was probably already greenlighted and the script was in its third rewrite a month ago. Look for a late summer release of Mission Accomplished.

In the first draft Jessica Lynch led the Seals, but they were afraid that this wouldn't fly, even in Peoria.

Bin Ladn's public statements seem to confirm the man's responsibility and leadership in the 9/11 crimes. He further was a fugitive.
The details of the confrontation that ended in his death are sketchy but he was the admitted leader of an organization who's trademark is suicide bombing and SOP is to shoot in the head when in doubt.
These are the facts as I understand them. In these times of spin and lies from public officials (and when was it ever different?) these facts may be in error but assuming they are correct: A dangerous criminal has been killed during an attempted aprehenssion and I won't lose any sleep about lack of due process. If he had wanted a trial he could have surrendered years ago and saved everybody a lot of grief.

Perception Management.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost12.html

The above line, "...if he had wanted a trial he could have surrendered years ago..."
is downright stupid. Whoever said he wanted a trial? OK, a murderer says to the world, "I'll stop my killing so you can put me on trial and I can explain my reasons. I live at ... and you can catch me at tea time." Fugitives usually don't like to get caught. Rule #1 of being a fugitive.

Minor correction, he was on the top 10 of the FBI's wanted list (at least at one time) but Miller is correct in implying that he was never indicted for 911; for the Cole and other attacks, yes, but not for 911.

The difference btw Eichmann and bin laden not mentioned.

Eichmann was a leader of a country.

bin Laden leader and funder of an ideological movement.

woe to foreign slimebags accepting our misused tax dollars to do the CIA's dirty work - Saddam, OBL, etc etc... the last thing they want is for these cockroaches to go on the record in a court of law, better to snuff them out.

assassinating OBL might also help the corporate agenda by undermining the "Arab Spring" - it's in Washington's best interest that Arabs remain subjugated.

"Some surmise he was killed in cold blood because a trial would have exposed his ties to the CIA"

- At the very least, it was convenient to kill Osama because certainly the US government didn't want Bin Laden telling the US public inconvenient truths. I suspect this was the case with Iraq also. Saddam and many Iraqi political members were sentenced to death so they couldn't expose US inconvenient truths in Iraq.

This article falsely equates the seizure of Eichmann vs. the killing of Bin Laden. Both were risky operations on foreign soil, but the similarity ends there. Eichmann was taken from his own home long after he thought he was being pursued and Israeli agents had no reason to fear they were walking into a fortress protected by heavily armed men. A better comparison would be Mossad's many targeted assassinations of terrorists in Tunisia and other countries.

It is also significant that the Eichmann trial served to awaken the world to a wider awareness of the holocaust. In the post-war years, the true nature of the holocaust was denied in Eastern bloc countries. In the same year that Eichmann was arrested, Yevtushenko's famous poem Baby Yar was a cry that the 33,000 Jewish dead buried outside Kiev be acknowledged:

No monument stands over Babi Yar.
A steep cliff only, like the rudest headstone.
I am afraid.
Today, I am as old
As the entire Jewish race itself.

The Eichmann trial was the first time that the world would hear directly from Holocaust survivors, who were often treated very harshly when they tried to return to their homes in Europe. A number were even murdered by their former neighbors in Poland and other Eastern bloc countries. After the Eichmann trial, there was a near-universal public acknowledgement of the holocaust in western Europe, notably in Germany itself.

A Bin Laden trial would not have served to increase our compassion for each other as human beings, no matter what our religion or ethnicity, as the Eichmann trial did.

That would be the straw that has broken my back... For those of you who don't remember, I've long argued that the 'truthers' were not being rational when questioning the case the US gov't put forward. I note too that there has been no legal case made in the event.

I'll admit it. I was wrong.

Show me the body! Is it any coincidence the US Gov't has suspended Habeas Corpus in this instance? How do we honestly know Bin is really dead? Does anyone here really believe the BS story that the Pakistani Gov't and probably the US Gov't didn't know exactly where this man was the last 5 yrs.? Sorry , but NONE of this whole event adds up right. Why was he executed and then the body dumped? You get rid of a body and you don't allow anyone to see it because maybe it wasn't Bin at all. Don't be surprised now if in the next few yrs. everyone connected to this so called event suddenly starts to disappear if you know what I mean.

Seen on a restroom wall:

Osama lives!

The simple truth is: Osama Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11. 9/11 was an inside job. That's they had to kill him. To hide the truth.

in the Wild West dead outlaws were put on public display.

will 0 be putting his private snuff film on YouTube?

I thought that a few quotes from the great philosopher and political scientist Hannah Arendt who covered the Eichmann trial might be appropriate.

“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think”
- Hannah Arendt -

“It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil”
- Hannah Arendt -

Hannah Arendt made some prescient observations about Adolph Eichmann that I think are relevant to understanding the minds of the people who have lead us into the debacle of the global war on terror. Arendt reported that Eichmann was evaluated by a number of Israeli psychiatrists and psychologists and found to have no significant psychiatric illness. He was not even considered to have a psychopathic personality. Eichmann reported that he was well educated. Judge Landau in questioning Eichmann asked him if he could elaborate on Immanuel Kant's 'categorical imperative'. Arendt reported that she was highly knowledgeable of the works of the moral philosophers and had not ever heard anyone give a clearer understanding of the categorical and moral imperatives than that given by Eichmann. Arendt concluded that Eichmann was not an inherently evil man but a man who had become so blinded by ideology that he had forgotten how to think. She referred to him as a desk murderer. I believe the same can be said of the key players of the Bush and Obama administrations and the military that blindly follow them that have promoted tyranny both at home and abroad.

The power over life and death. We have all know this saying as an expression of absolute power. Many think the president of the US is the most powerful man in the world. The president orders the assignation of the leader of our enemies who are out to destroy us. An act of absolute power. Now we are told the the result is not going to weaken our enemy and make us safer, but will in fact set us up for more attacks so security must be increased. A very powerful act indeed. Another man with no power, not even enough power to run a fruit stand. Kills a man, himself, and set in motion events that overthrows government and people that were far more powerful that he could ever hope to be. The political system and leadership in this nation has devolved from one that was based on the power of human progress and morality to the lowest form of power. Violent action untempered by, moral concepts, or the rule of law, and in this case depraved indifference as to the effect of the action and what the results might be. In point of fact the government admits that in planning this action they determined the likely results of this assassination would put us at greater risk. Are we demonstrating how powerful we are by taking counter productive action that puts us at greater risk,and then admitting our ever increasing fear to the rest of the world? So two men killed, why was one event so powerful and the other weak and counter productive? One represented human progress and morality the other, shame and weakness. The United States of America has lost it's moral compass and the only power we have left is from the barrel of the gun.

What a delightful surprise to find this piece on CD! Keep up the good work, people!

I haven't had time to read the comments thread yet, and I have to go out now, but for anyone interested, here is a long interview with the highest-level 9/11 whistleblower yet, Dr. Steve Piczienik, who also talks about Bin Laden's real death and Obomber's recent "Bin Laden Caper," to quote Obedient Servant. Whatever you may think of Alex Jones, this is very explosive material:

http://www.infowars.com/top-us-government-insider-bin-laden-died-in-2001-911-a-false-flag/

To assassinate Bin Laden rather than capture him shows a shocking lack of courage on the part of American leaders. Of course, what does one expect from a society that conducts wars by drones? It's been centuries since kings rode into battle at the heads of their armies rather than sitting in comfort and conducting mass murder by remote control. Bush, Obama? The names, the colors, the political parties change, but the pitiful lack of courage remains the same. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised. After all, our Presidents and Generals are merely paid employees of the bankers and other corporate leaders anyway. They're only ersatz leaders.

Like the Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann trial took place with an entirely defeated enemy. Also, the situation involved States. Neither of these conditions apply with Bin Laden, who was a terrorist, part of an organization with whom we are still engaged in fighting. Hence, the rules of combat might apply, rather than other aspects of international law.