The public relations value of delivering a public blow to a worldwide terror network.
Such leadership would have encouraged other nations to stand firm against worldwide terror, gained their respect and most probably would have reduced the threat.
While they said his precise location was a mystery, officials said Mr. bin Laden's ability to command his worldwide terror network had been seriously eroded by the air war and by advancing anti-Taliban fighters.
The 18 jurors who were finally chosen are now hearing the case of four men accused of joining a worldwide terror plot that led to the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania on Aug. 7, 1998.
The Times of London said in a headline, "Worldwide Terror Hunt for the 'White Widow,' " while The Sun, the tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, showed a photograph of her as a schoolgirl and said: "The angel-faced British girl who last night became... World's Most Wanted".
Worldwide terror attacks and fatalities have soared to unprecedented levels.
Every Tuesday the "humanitarian" Obama personally oversees a worldwide terror network of drones that "bugsplat" people, their rescuers and mourners.
He also repealed the executive order Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations, which allowed other worldwide terror groups to gain funds, and property.
The attack in Paris, coming on the heels of a deadly bombing in Beirut (the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for both incidents), have pushed worldwide terror, what Pope Francis has called the "piecemeal third world war," to the forefront of people's mind.
When terror struck the United States on Sept. 11, we all thought that terrorism was a worldwide threat ("Ground Zero, Madrid," editorial, March 12).
