O is for Osama Bin Laden

While America celebrates the death of Osama bin Laden, Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah is healing from a leg wound she received when she defended her husband.

According to ABC News Fatah, bin Laden's youngest wife,  jumped in front of bin Laden in order to protect him from the U.S. Navy SEALS as they fired their last shots. Taking a bullet in the leg, Fatah is now in custody, held by Pakistani officials who claim she is too injured to speak to the U.S.

Many Americans are celebrating the death of bin Laden. His actions on September 11th haven't been forgotten by any American. It's safe to assume that we'd be very hard pressed to find an American who mourned his death.

However bin Laden had a family, a considerably large family, who have to deal with his death and with the excitement and celebration that surrounds it.

Fatah, his youngest wife, made a desperate attempt to protect his life. Bin Laden and Fatah's daughter was there as he was shot to death. His family members witnessed, what must seem to them, a brutal execution of someone they cared about.

Is it wrong, and even hypocritical, then to celebrate his death the way we do? It's understandable to me that people would be relieved that bin Laden was captured and killed, his actions on 9/11 and his terrorism around the world is more than enough evidence of the man's evil.

But this excitement, this ecstatic excitement that has been seen across the country this week is disturbing.  It's cold blooded almost, that our thirst for revenge has been sated and that people have no problem openly expressing joy at the death of a man.

In no way is this meant to belittle the heroic efforts of the U.S Navy SEALS, what they had to do must have been both terrifying and difficult. Concern has been popping up about the morality of bin Laden's death and if shots needed to even be fired.

Facebook, especially, is a buzz with status' of concerned citizens who think that bin Laden should have been captured instead of being shot in front of a family.

According to the Guardian, Pakistani's foreign minister is questioning the way that the U.S handled bin Laden's death and the "legality" of it.

There is no question in my mind that if found, bin Laden should have been captured by the U.S. There is no question in my mind over the relief that Americans have expressed over his death.

However, was this the wrong way to handle the situation?