Bin Laden mission name: Beelzebub

Recently there has been some controversy over the code name given for the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. Native Americans feel it is disrespectful to Geronimo, who was a brave warrior. I agree.

A better name would have been Beelzebub (another name for the devil), because bin Laden was the embodiment of evil. For several years he has been the cause of the death of thousands of innocent people. These people never did anything to bin Laden — he never met them.

But his twisted mind felt those people and all the rest of us, Americans and other westerners, were his enemy. Osama bin Laden was not brave. He hid in various places while his underlings did his dirty work. He lived in comfort most of the time while his misguided followers, on his orders, went out and committed mass murder.

The brave people in this case were the Navy Seals who went on the mission and successfully completed it when they went to the hideout the killed bin Laden, justly. I have read that before he died, Geronimo converted to Christianity. I believe he is in heaven. And I also have no doubt that Osama bin Laden is in hell facing the judgment of God.

Marilyn Laub

Elmhurst