Published: May 05, 2011
Bringing Osama Bin Ladin to Justice Takes Broad, Concerted, Intense Effort
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today said that bringing Osama bin Ladin to justice took a broad, sustained, concerted and intense effort.
At the National Conference of Editorial Writers, Ms. Clinton said that the operation to capture Bin Ladin involved troops in the field, intelligence experts, diplomats, and law enforcement officials.
>"I was extremely gratified by the teamwork that was evidenced. One of the goals that we've had in this Administration is for people to work together on task without the usual interruptions that sometimes are caused by bureaucracy and other matters that too often have been a plague.'-Ms. Clinton
Ms. Clinton said that the United States worked tirelessly to forge an anti-terror network.
"I just came from a meeting where we're putting all the different pieces together for our response, because obviously, the goal here is not just to have accomplished this very important mission, but to shape its meaning and create the narrative that will convince people he was a murderer, not a martyr, and that he murdered more Muslims than anyone else. He was a mass killer of Muslims."-Ms. Clinton
Ms. Clinton stated that for the United States, starting with the embassy bombings in Africa, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, through 9/11, there were many operations that bore the signature of bin Ladin and al-Qaida. But also in Madrid and London and Bali and Istanbul, there were similar operations, and probably the most severely impacted country was Pakistan.
Ms. Clinton said that the United States has a very close relationship with Pakistan. It was crucial in finally leading them to bin Ladin, Ms. Clinton added.
Source: U.S. Department of State
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