One of the most surprising of discoveries occurred only weeks before his death. Starting on Friday, March 18th 2011, Bin Laden’s doubts of faith began when he simply wrote “Am I on the right path?” The next week, in between ramblings about not having enough snack food, he pondered whether Allah would “approve of the methods being carried out.” He then went on to say that perhaps he would “get more flies with honey than vinegar.”
It wasn’t until April that the biggest bombshell was recorded. On Sunday, April 10th 2011, Bin Laden wrote that he “wanted to end this nonsense” and turn himself in. But, he wanted to convert to Catholicism first. He began engineering a network of pathways between his compound in Pakistan and Rome. This time, the directive was not for a terrorist attack, but a religious conversion.
He mentions grumblings heard from some of his supporters that he immediately silenced when he reminded them who he was. He anxiously awaited the pathway to be completed and hoped that it would be done by Easter. Unfortunately, he had to celebrate Easter in a small celebration with only 3 wives and 22 children. He did, however, have his first taste of Marshmallow Peeps and was thrilled with him. “They were excellent. But, I couldn’t eat them every day,” he remarked.
His last entry was on Sunday May 1st 2001. He goes on for 7 pages on how he plans to be in Rome by the end of the week. And after his conversion, he would be more than willing to turn himself over to the world courts to answer for his crimes with a clean conscious. He talked about how excited he was to be able to get absolution from “The Pope, himself! What an admirable guy. I wish I had come to this realization years earlier.”
This was Bin Laden’s last entry. For, later that day, we shot the bastard in the eye.
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