Osama bin Laden Died for T-shirts

Bin Laden tees are the HOT thing going on all over the internet and department stores. With the assignation of Osama bin Laden, merchandise has gone wild. Just searching through Google Search Engine for Osama Bin Laden t-shirts and it will show about 3,700,000 results. Bin Laden t-shirts shows about 11,200,000 results. 

Less than 48 hours after the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death, on April 29, 2011, when US Navy SEALS took him down, merchandisers had their products all set up ready to sell, which seems to be the American way. 

It is a time to celebrate in America that after the 9/11 attacks on the US. After all, our military killed Osama bin Laden.

On the other hand, is it a time now more than ever, we have to be weary of what will happen next?

More than likely, his right hand man, Ayman al Zawahiri, will be his replacement. Al-Zawahiri, along with Osama bin Laden organized an Al-Qaida congress on June 24, 1998. Moreover, on April 30, 2009, the US State Department reported that Zawahiri had emerged as al-Qaeda's operational and strategic commander. Leaving Osama bin Laden as the figurehead of the organization.

On Sept. 11, 2011, Osama bin Laden, as the founder of the al-Qaeda organization; mastermind the attacks on the United States. These coordinated suicide attacks included four hijacked commercial passenger jet airliners by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists.

Their assignment in place was to crash two of the airliners into the TwinTowers of the WorldTradeCenter in New York City. Everyone on board the airline was killed upon impact to the TwinTowers. It was a sorrow-filled day. Many works in the buildings died and many firefighters who tried to save their lives. Two hours later, both tower buildings collapsed. Nearby buildings were destroyed and other buildings were damaged.

A second attack from the hijackers in a third airliner crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. This terrorists attack killed 184 people from the Pentagon and extensive damage to the structure of the building.

The third terrorist attack on the United States was the hijack of a fourth airline. We believe that the target was either the CapitolBuilding or the White House. That mission failed in the respect of some of its passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane. Causing it to crash into a field near Shanksville, located in rural Pennsylvania and killed everyone on the plane. However, no casualty outside of the plane due to the courage acts of these American people.

The casualties of the September 11, 2001 took 2,996 lives, including the 19 hijackers.

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In the American fashion, we celebrate with merchandise. Some may think of it as sick, others as a clever way to make a buck. Either way, we are a country of entrepreneurs. It is our way of saying that we still have free speech. 

Celebrate that after ten years of hiding, we have killed Bin Laden. But don't go back into your fairy tale world prior to 9/11, that we are invincible.