U.S. President Barack Obama's speech late Sunday announcing the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden was greeted with praise and relief by Czech politicians Monday who said the Obama administration had eliminated public enemy No. 1 and that the death of the al Qaeda leader makes the world a safer place.

But Petr Hajek, a senior adviser to Czech President Vaclav Klaus, who himself garners headlines for his contrarian views, made headlines for all the wrong reasons. Again.

Hajek is known in the Czech Republic as a rabble-rouser.

Hajek says the character of bin Laden is more myth than fact and he reiterated his view that the terrorist attacks on the U.S. in 2001 were a conspiracy of the U.S. government.

"Bin Laden is a media fiction. Like how he was born and died, in strange, almost mystical circumstances," Hajek said in an interview Monday with Czech parliamentary newspaper Parlamentni Listy.