{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Obama and Bin Laden - A Gilgamesh Parallel","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article107478.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article107478.html'\u003EObama and Bin Laden - A Gilgamesh Parallel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor two and a half years President Barack Obama hunted the \u201cmonster\u201d Osama bin Laden, and last year he had bin Laden killed.  This story has many parallels to the towering Sumerian epic Gilgamesh.  Gilgamesh, who was the ruler of the city-state of Uruk, sought to gain eternal fame by killing the monster Humbaba.  After defeating the monster, Gilgamesh ignored its pleas for mercy and proceeded to slay the helpless monster.  That act of cruelty angered Heaven, which took out its vengeance on (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}