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As a human being, bin Laden may have deserved compassion and even forgiveness, the Dalai Lama said in answer to a question about the assassination of the al-Qaeda leader. But, he said, "Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. ... If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."
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Mitchell Landsberg quoting Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in "Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden's death was justified" in The Los Angeles Times (4 May 2011)

 

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