U.S. Rep. John Dingell: Killing Osama bin Laden is ‘end of beginning’ not ‘beginning of end’
May 2, 2011
From MLive.com:
Dearborn Democratic Rep. John Dingell said Monday morning that the United States scored a major victory in the fight against terrorism with Sunday’s killing of Osama bin Laden but warned that his followers continue to pose a threat.
“This is not the end,” the Dean of the House told WJR-AM 760 host Paul W. Smith. “It is not the beginning of the end. As (Winston) Churchill once observed, it is the end of the beginning.
“A major step has been taken for the security of the United States, but remember, this fellow Bin Laden is an evil man, and like other evil men, he’s going to leave a lot behind him.”
A number of national defense and terrorism experts, including Dr. Richard Chasdi of Wayne State University, warned Sunday night that bin Laden’s cohorts could seek a form retaliation in the near future, noting that al-Qaida’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, remains at large.
Like many other communities around the nation, residents in Dingell’s home city took to the streets Sunday night after the president announced bin Laden’s death, their revelry particularly notable in light of Dearborn’s large Arab American population.
“You don’t celebrate the death of somebody, but it’s hard not to feel relief that this evil man is gone,” Dingell said.
Read the article and listen to the full WJR interview at MLive.com.




