Italy terms Osama killing a ‘great victory’
May 2nd, 2011 - 6:43 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, May 2 (IANS/AKI) Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini Monday hailed the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden as “a great victory” for the international community.
“This is a great victory for the US and the international community as a whole in the struggle against Al Qaeda and terrorism,” Frattini said in a statement.
Bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces in a mansion within a fortified compound in Abbottabad city, near the Pakistani capital, early Monday.
“It was a victory made possible by the determination of the US to go after those who were responsible for the most tragic event at the start of the present century, the 9/11 attack,” he said.
“It was victory of good over evil, of justice against wickedness, of the free and democratic world,” he said.
International terrorism has not been defeated yet, “but it has certainly been weakened”, said Frattini.
The next target should be Taliban leader Mullah Omar, he added.
–IANS/AKI
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