Robert Fisk On Bin Laden's Death

Robert Fisk is a superlative journalist with a keen intimate understanding of the Middle East.

Here he comments of Bin Laden's death in the context of recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. Its a good interview and read.

774 ABC Australia: Death of Osama Bin Laden 'pretty irrelevant': Robert Fisk

"Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on claiming that they were all infidels working for America and in fact it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them."


"Bin Laden didn't, he failed to do that."


"You've got to remember these regimes have always been telling the Americans 'keep on supporting us because if you don't Al Qaeda will take over' - and in fact Al Qaeda did not take over.