Osama: Has he left the building?**

For the whole week, all of the Western media have been going at full throttle on Osama's capture and subsequent killing. Obama had the honour of announcing to the world this welcoming news of his near namesake to his voters, much to the joy and satisfaction of the average American who are average minded anyway! Donald Rumsfeld's private secretary apparently had twittered about this hours before the Presidential announcement.
What they to fail to realize is that Osama is just a figment of the symbol of American hegemony on the matters of the world. Like a T4 bacteriophage, the demise of the parent Osama will breed many little Osamas waiting to pounce of other bacilli when the time is ripe.
There is definitely no reason to rejoice as many wise men before have told us that 'An eye for an eye will only leave the whole blind' and we have enough misery in the world to exemplify that.
Are the aggressors going to cow into submission saying, "Oh, I am so scared! The infidels have killed our leader. Let us all repent and lay down our weapons." Sorry, Jose. Dream on....
Already conspiracy theories are flying all over the place on Osama's demise in martyrdom. Why is it that Osama was living cosily just 90km from Islamabad under the very noses of the Pakistani 'intelligences'? Why was the unarmed Osama killed? Would he not be a treasure cove for all information of terrorist activities of the world, from Al-Queda to Al Sayaf to Jemaah Islamiyah? Why was the footage of his capture or body not shown and his body was disposed off so fast into the Arabian Sea? And the newspapers announced just the following day that his DNA matched to Osama. Just like the FISH (Filtration In-Situ Hybridization) technique used to match  the DNA, this whole conundrum smells fishy till high heaven.

Remington Steele

That is, of course, if an entity called Osama actually exists in the first place. This reminds me of the TV series 'Remington Steele' (a lady PI with no cases creates a non existent employer to sex up her firm, acted by Pierce Brosnan and pretty Stephanie Zimbalist) and 'Wag the Dog' where they created a non existent war to divert the attention of the masses.

**The phrase 'Elvis has left the building' was first used in the mid 50s to pacify the ecstatic rabid teenagers (from jumping all around and searching for up and coming Elvis after his performance), so that the rest of the show could proceed. Ironically in the 70s, the same phrase was used to tell his audience that his show was over and it was time to go back home!