Cuban state media said Monday that the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is meant to "distract attention" from the international military intervention in Libya, dpa reported.
"It catches the eye that the death of the world's most-wanted terrorist should be announced at a time when NATO is indiscriminately bombing Libya and when one of its air raids on Tripoli caused the death of a son of the Libyan leader, Colonel (Moamer) Gaddafi, and of three of his grandchildren," Cuba's midday news said.
Calling bin Laden a "former CIA aide," an apparent reference to his fight with the US-aided Afghan rebels against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, the Cuban broadcaster called the US attack on bin Laden "a way to distract the world's media attention."
"In the meantime, millions of people wonder whether this announcement will mean the end of the war on terrorism," the news programme said.
The website Cubadebate.cu, where Cuban leader Fidel Castro regularly publishes his articles, noted that terrorism is "as old as warfare and will not end magically because Bin Laden has taken a shot to the head."
"What is really deplorable is not that Bin Laden found the fate he sought but that thousands of people died because of his criminal ideals. Or that thousands of people also died when the United States decided to make the most of the 9/11 attack to embark on a crusade with which to secure hegemony in the Middle East," Cubadebate.cu posted.
"Compared to that, the death or the execution of bin Laden is just a moral footnote."
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