Osama bin Laden : The Hate Story

The Hate Story: The long-bearded man with fiery eyes bears the brunt of most anti-terrorist propaganda. Halloween masks, sand sculptures, video games, graphics on T-shirts and even toilet paper— here is an array of products that depict Osama bin Laden alongside fuming captions. Osama, alleged to be the mastermind behind Al-Qaeda’s attacks in the US on September 11, 2001 was executed by the US Navy SEALS on May 2, 2011 in his hideout in northern Abbottabad in Pakistan. Controversies around this ‘Operation Neptune Spear’ have not died out yet; the world remembers Osama on the first anniversary of his killing. A lot of hatred, some sympathy, some objective reasoning, some hero worship, and a lot more goes into the cauldron of Osama memories.