Ernesto Che Guevara and Osama Bin Laden seem to share more than their common battle against the American empire, both captured the imagination of millions of individuals around the world, both transcended their own national epic and identity, and both managed to become – in spite of themselves and the efforts to co-opt-in system and ideological cultural icons representative of a heroic resistance against the imperial power.
Both also were killed in action, ie in combat, allowing you to associate the fighting courage of those heroes of the nineteenth century that transformed their peoples into nations, giving them a sense of unique and distinctive identity.
By now the twenty-first century and the huge deployment of media and social networking, the overall impact of both figures should not make us forget that, for the people and the Arab masses, the hero Osama Bin Laden is poised to become a powerful symbolic icon for millions of young and citizens Arab, have tarnished his body that had been thrown into the sea (violating Islamic precepts of burying their dead), but become a myth and legend figure.