Ham on Wry Award to al Qaeda

This week, Ham on Wry presents its award to al Qaeda for the ironic confirmation released by its general command to various jihadi online forums Tuesday.  To quote them, in part, as translated by CNN, " Even when the Americans managed to kill Osama, they managed to do ONLY that by disgrace and betrayal. Men and heroes only should be confronted in the battlefields but at the end, that's God's fate."  If, as they write, killing men (in the generic sense) should only occur on battlefields, why, then, did they choose a coward's method of killing thousands of people as they worked in their offices?  It would seem that in doing that, they defied their own credo.  Perhaps we can consider the workplace a battlefield at times, but certainly not in the same sense as the quote.

Unwittingly, the group has also made it unnecessary to release the photos described as gruesome by President Obama.  His decision has been analyzed ad infinitum thus far.  Al Qaeda's statment should quell the clamor about the photos, and we can resume life as we know it.  For that, we can offer our thanks for the confirmation.

Ultimately, we can debate the process used in Osama bin Laden's death, but it won't alter the fact that he no longer lives and can't personally devise plots to kill innocent people in the name of an Allah that demands  the death anyone who does not believe as al Qaeda does.  That includes other Muslims whose faith in Islam does not decree obliteration of all other types of beleivers and non--believers.  Let us now move on from our obsession about all things Osama and leave him to his resting place at the bottom of the sea.