Another day, another desperate attempt to blight Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for the Labour Party leadership.

We can expect the dirty, daily anti-Corbyn diet to continue in the likely event of him being elected.

The latest smear concerns remarks he made four years ago, following the assassination of al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden by US special forces.

Corbyn referred to it as “yet another tragedy” on top of other tragedies such as the September 11 World Trade Centre attacks, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the deaths of thousands of people and the blatant use of torture in the Bagram and Guantanamo prison camps.

Eager to oblige the anti-Labour mass media, the party’s defence spokesperson Kevan Jones announced yesterday that Corbyn’s comments showed “how out of touch he is with what most people’s views are.”

New Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said the Islington North MP had been “utterly wrong” while a Tory MP revealed that Bin Laden was a terrorist whom every sensible person would have wanted arrested or killed.

One wonders if any of them had watched the offending television interview in full before rushing to judgement.

In it, Corbyn voices his suspicion that no attempt had been made to arrest Bin Laden and put him on trial as US troops stormed his compound in Pakistan. We now know that Bin Laden, an aide and three family members were unarmed when shot dead.

Corbyn asked whether any lessons were going to be learned from all these tragedies, or would we just continue to sink “deeper and deeper” in the quagmire. We know the answer to that too.

Then he showed rather more prescience than his chief Labour and Tory critics have ever done, telling Iranian Press TV (whose broadcasting licence has since been revoked by Ofcom): “The next stage will be an attempted assassination on Gadaffi and so it will go on. This will just make the world more dangerous and worse and worse and worse.”

Surveying the calamitous mess today that is Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria — another target for Western intervention — who can say that Corbyn was wrong?

Significantly, neither Bin Laden nor Saddam Hussein nor Muammar Gadaffi were ever allowed to face justice in a courtroom.

All three could then have provided chapter and verse of the financial and military assistance — extensive in the first two cases — they received from the US, Britain and other Western powers when it suited big business imperialist interests.

Coal’s future

JEREMY CORBYN’S willingness to think outside the Establishment box has been vindicated by our exclusive disclosure that Britain’s last deep-mine colliery is scheduled to close on December 15.

The Labour leadership candidate was attacked by rivals for daring to suggest that there may be a case for reopening mines to produce high-quality coal.

He also made clear that “clean-burn technology” would be essential in what would have to be a carbon-neutral and financially viable option.

He floated this idea within the context of a nationalised energy sector which puts planning and investment first. The alternative is bigger coal imports, subsidised nuclear energy, extortionate prices and bloated profits.