Fidel Castro accuses US

The Cuban President, Fidel Castro criticizes US for shooting unarmed al-Qaida leader in front of his family and predicts a backlash.

Castro further blames the US of executing Bin Laden, violating Pakistan rules and desecrating Muslim burial tradition in an "abhorrent" operation. After killing the leader in front of his family, he was buried at sea a fact which will most likely multiply "hatred and revenge" against the US rather than make it safer.

"Whatever the actions attributed to him, the assassination of an unarmed human being while surrounded by his own relatives is something abhorrent." Castro wrote in the communist newspaper Granma.

"Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan … whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended and its religious traditions desecrated."

Castro’s comments were on par with the Hamas and other Islamic groups that thoroughly criticized the killing. Worldwide tension rises on hearing the way the White House's original version of a firefight during the navy Seal raid in Abbottabad last Sunday has changed. 

Assassinating Bin Laden and later throwing his body in the sea will bring "fear and insecurity" that would turn him into a "far more dangerous person" via an anti-US backlash, Castro said. The President also thinks that after the initial euphoria will fade away even the US people will criticize the action.

The 84-year-old leader stressed that Cuba expressed solidarity with the US after the 11 September attacks but that Washington then pursued "unjust wars" in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Venezuela's vice-president, Elías Jaua, also disapproves saying the US was using assassination as an instrument to resolve problems. "I never cease to be surprised by how crime and murder has been naturalized and how it's celebrated," he said.

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