http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/6614682/Jeremy-Corbyn-calls-Osama-Bin-Ladens-death-a-tragedy.htmlJEREMY Corbyn called the death of 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden a “tragedy”.
The favourite to be next Labour leader claimed the al-Qaeda warlord’s 2011 execution left the world a “more dangerous” place.
Corbyn’s gaffe casts doubt on Corbyn’s claims that meeting extremists and calling them “friends”, did not mean he shared their views.
He had slammed critics for “hysteria and deliberate misrepresentation” after The Sun exposed him for meeting known anti-semites such as Dyab Abou Jahjah.
Amazingly Mr Corbyn did not deny these views last night, with a spokesman simply saying: “Jeremy is a total opponent of al-Qaeda and all it stands for.”
The howler came as he spoke to Press TV, the Iranian regime’s English language propaganda channel, just days after the 2011 US hit squad raid in Abbottabad, rural Pakistan.
Corbyn also pushed conspiracy theories that America may have faked the death and burial at sea.
He said: “We can only guess that there is something fishy here. Either Bin Laden wasn’t there, therefore there has to be a story. Or, the pictures ... show something else... This was an assassination attempt and is yet another tragedy upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy.”
Former Tory Defence Secretary Liam Fox hit back: “The death of Bin Laden was not a tragedy but the removal of a huge terrorist threat to our people.
“Corbyn might want to think about the lives lost on 9/11, the firefighters killed and those leaping to their deaths. They were tragedies. If the Labour Party elect someone with so little moral compass they will be confined to the dustbin of political history and deservedly so.”
And even Labour colleagues turned on the leftie firebrand last night. Senior Labour MP Ian Austin said: “How anyone could call it a tragedy is beyond me.
“Right-thinking people around the world were delighted to learn a terrorist mass-murderer had been tracked down and prevented from planning more atrocities.”
