The movie has arrived in Germany, too.
And German weekly Der Stern featured the hunt for Bin Laden as its cover story. The image on the magazine cover was more interesting than the article itself.
It was the iconic Bin Laden warrior image, the bearded crusader, smooth complexion and no wrinkles, eyes not looking into the camera but somewhere distant. A paintbrushed version of the image we have seen so many times associated with the horror of 9/11 -- not the image of the old Bin Laden in front of his TV in Pakistan, the guy who obviously suffers from tremors and is a shadow of his former self.
Very much the same if true for photos of other super villains, for instance, from the massacres in former Yugoslavia. The photos of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadic on Wikipedia are also from the times when they gained notoriety during the war.
The man who shot Bin Laden made headlines in Europe a few days ago with claims of no support after he retired from the armed forces. And he is afraid that he is on a hit list of the bad boys.
Very sad.
Still, in the US, people are more likely to die of friendly fire.
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