US ended bin Laden's life; Muslims had already buried his ideology

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...For the Arab world, bin Laden's death comes amid more tumultuous events. It still marks a line in the sand. Al Qa'eda's ideas have run like a cancer through the region and the impact of their actions in New York, Washington and a pasture in Pennsylvania have scarred the Middle East. Neither the Arab world nor America chose this battle, but the region has suffered most from its convulsions.

Across Afghanistan and Pakistan and among the wreckage of Iraq there are millions who fit Mr Obama's description of "children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father, parents who would never know the feeling of their child's embrace".

American bombs and jihadi belts have devastated parts of the region. Without 9/11 to guide American troops into Iraq, that would have not happened.

The death of bin Laden does not end that tragic story, but it closes one chapter. In the hours since the world learnt that bin Laden had been killed, some have claimed a turning point for the Middle East. Arabs, they say, can finally put an unwanted ambassador to rest.

But this was always an outsider's perspective. Since 9/11, bin Laden has been the representation of Arabs to America, but he was never the representative for the majority of Arabs to themselves. He was an anomaly, an apparition, a caricature of a complex region... http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/us-ended-bin-ladens-life-muslims-had-already-buried-his-ideology