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HAVANA, CUBA (BNO NEWS) — Former Cuban President Fidel Castro on Thursday slammed the ‘assassination’ of Osama bin Laden who was reportedly unarmed when U.S. Special Forces shot at him.

According to the state-run Cuban News Agency, Castro criticized that the al-Qaeda leader was shot dead in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan.

Furthermore, Castro aid that in the years before Sunday’s special operation, the U.S. has violated the laws of Pakistan as well as offended its national dignity and desecrated its religious tradition.

“Having assassinated him and plunging his corpse into the bottom of the sea is an expression of fear and insecurity which turn him into a far more dangerous person;” added the leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Castro also warned U.S. President Barack Obama and the American people that this act will multiply the feelings of hatred and revenge against them, far from ensuring the safety of the citizens.

On May 1, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead during a special operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The top secret mission was a success and Bin Laden’s body was later buried at sea.

Castro said that Cuba expressed its solidarity to the U.S. following the September 11 terrorist attacks which were ordered by Bin Laden. However, he remarked that the decision to killing an unarmed man was disgraceful.

“Bin Laden was, for many years, a friend of the U.S., a country that gave him military training. But, whatever the actions attributed to him, the assassination of an unarmed human being while surrounded by his own relatives is something abhorrent.”

Finally, Castro highlighted that the U.S. cannot justify its actions as the retaliation for the death of around 3,000 citizens in the 2001 attacks as they have done much more damage to families in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Millions of citizens were taken from their villages in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba and many other countries of the world. Hundreds of thousands of children were forced to grow up without their mothers and fathers and the parents who would never know the feeling of their child’s embrace.”