WHAT a strange, dark world R Westmoreland must inhabit (Letters, May 6).

Is he the only person in the world who believes Osama bin Laden is guilt-free in the destruction of the World Trade Center?

It has been proved beyond doubt that Osama bin Laden masterminded the evil which resulted in the deaths of more than 3,000 innocent civilians on that dreadful day.

Why does Mr Westmoreland appear to be defensive towards this odious man?

Ask yourself this, Mr Westmoreland. Out of the billions of followers of Islam, why would the western powers select one person to take the blame for those, and other terrorist attacks?

What on earth does the phrase “half-made men and women of the BBC” mean, Mr Westmoreland? Or was it a “typo” and should it have read “half-mad”? Either way, it doesn’t make much sense.

Apropos Mr Westmoreland’s, obvious hatred of the US, I would like to ask a simple question. Do you believe we could have won the war without America?

The US has the wherewithal to take the war to the enemy, which is what they did when their Seals shot dead one of the most evil men the world has known.

Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge.

• WHEN the twin towers in Manhattan were destroyed alleged on the orders of Osama Bin Laden, on September 11, 2001, within four weeks the invasion of Afghanistan by UN forces began, with the intention of persuading the Taliban rulers to hand over Osama bin Laden.

How wrong could that hope be? Almost ten years later and after an illegal decimation of Iraq to obtain a regime change, Osama Bin Laden was discovered to have been living in Pakistan, for at least five years, directing the operation of his vile trade from a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a short distance from an elite army officers’ training barracks?

It is incredible that no one in Pakistan knew or were able to disclose the whereabouts of this terrorist leader, who has cost nations thousand of lives.

The Pakistani government has been paid millions of dollars towards its fight against terrorists living in the hills along the Afghanistan border.

How could this wanted man pass through unnoticed?

Prime Minister David Cameron, when visiting Pakistan, hinted that they appeared to be “facing both ways”. Could they have been “looking the other way”?

J Beisly, Osprey Close, York.