Rome, May 2 (IANS) Hailing the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden as ‘a great victory’ for the international community, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini Monday said the next target should be Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar in the fight against terrorism.
Bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces in a mansion within a fortified compound in Abbottabad city, near the Pakistani capital, early Monday.
‘In our opinion, the next object should be Mullah Omar, but the goal of our decisive actions, which we continue to develop as an international coalition against terrorism, is the elimination of all terrorist centres,’ RIA Novosti quoted Frattini as saying over Italian radio.
Mullah Mohammed Omar is the spiritual leader of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He is wanted by the FBI for sheltering bin Laden and other Al Qaeda militants before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. Not much else is known about Omar.
Frattini emphasised that the world must not lose vigilance.
‘We cannot think that all the leaders of the terrorist world will fall after the death of Osama bin Laden. We must continue to work so this does happen.’
At least 44 US Navy SEALs were involved in the military operation to capture bin Laden.
Frattini also hailed the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden as ‘a great victory’ for the international community, AKI reported.
‘This is a great victory for the US and the international community as a whole in the struggle against Al Qaeda and terrorism,’ Frattini said in a statement.
‘It was a victory made possible by the determination of the US to go after those who were responsible for the most tragic event at the start of the present century, the 9/11 attack,’ he said.
‘It was victory of good over evil, of justice against wickedness, of the free and democratic world,’ he said.
