Swiss Defense Minister Says President Obama Made Osama Bin Laden Martyr Because He Announced His Death

Crazy talk coming from the Swiss: The Local - Obama made bin Laden a martyr - Swiss Defense Minister Ueli Maurer. Er, sorry but this is a load of crap. Am I missing something? Was there a terrorist attack on Switzerland September 11, 2001?

"It is problematic for me when a president announces this news. That way he raises a terrorist to the same level as himself," Maurer was quoted as saying in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Der Sonntag.

"That really turns bin Laden into a martyr," he added, saying that the death should have been announced by a spokesman or in written form.

Maurer, a member of the hard right Swiss People's Party, claimed the announcement was good for Obama's election campaign but elevated a terrorist organisation to virtually the same level as the most powerful state in the world. "A US President should not announce that," he said, warning that it would motivate terror groups to fight on. Source: The Local Switzerland

Defense Minister Ueli Maurer should worry about what is going on in his country and stop worrying about ours. Osama Bin Laden will be seen as a martyr because he was killed by the U.S., not because President Obama made the disclosure on network television.