Osama is dead - but it does not mark the End of Terror in the world

Osama Bin Laden – a brutal extremist Islamist Terror Chief who was hunted by US forces after the September 11^th attack was eventually shot dead in Pakistan on the 1^st of May. It is important to note that just like Prabakaran, Osama had also boasted saying that he will never let his enemies get hold of his body. But eventually both these ruthless, heartless terror chiefs had to say good bye to life and probably make their way to down to hell.

Osama Bin Laden formed the Al Qaeda in 1988 and declared war on the US in 1998. In the process he has taken away the lives of close to 10,000 innocent people which also includes the slap on the face of the US when he brought down the heart of the world economy – the Twin towers in US. The death toll in that attack alone stands over 3000.

Osama is dead - that makes 2 less daemons on earth, but is it all over?

However, Southeast Asian terror networks appear to believe the killing of Osama bin Laden by US special forces in Pakistan is the equivalent of a bloody nose, rather than a body blow, to their jihadist cause.

Southeast Asia jihadist movements such as Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines have cooperated with and been inspired by Al-Qaeda, but their aims and means are independent.

Aqil Siradj, chairman of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, the moderate Nahd-latul Ulama, which claims 60 million members, said Osama's demise "won't automatically eradicate radicalism from the earth".

The region's best-known Al-Qaeda-linked groups, Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf, have murdered hundreds of people across Southeast Asia since well before the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

While congratulating US President Barack Obama and the CIA Chief for the master plan to kill Osama Bin Laden, we should also remember that the War on Terror is not over.