Personal?????Stop acting like another person on this thread thinking that he was the U.S problem only,you are not the only people who suffered due to his orgs actions.
Tincap
they did us all a fav by slotting him,yes myself i hoped he pissed himself in fright before he got double tapped.It would be IMPOSSIBLE to put OBL on trial,he would be on trial for over a year,then given the death sentence(waiting how long on death row).
I think the questions about who knew what, about where UBL was during the last few years in Pakistan will be dissected in detail, both in the media and in intelligence orgs. I was looking at the location of his compound on Google Earth and noticed there is a dandy Mosque, not far east of his compound...got me to thinking....I guess he could not attend Mosque, because someone would likely have turned his sorry butt in for the $27 million reward, even in Pakistan, where he had much support. I don't know. It may turn out he attended Mosque all the time for 6 years and everyone kept their pieholes shut....who knows?
consider a hypothetical example.
I have a pet tiger that I release a couple of times each week and it goes out and kills a kid or two in the neighborhood. you guys complain to me and I say hey I don't have money to feed it, so you give me money to feed it. I take the money but I still release the tiger and it continues killing your family members. you ask me again and I change nothing. I say I will but I don't. the tiger continues to kill folk in the area and terrorize the population. your life is a living hell. repeat cycle 10-15 times.
what will you do ?
option a) nothing. let your kid be gruesomely killed in front of you. after all going into my house is 'trespassing' and that is 'illegal' (right !)
option b) get a gun, gather some people around, come into my house and shoot the tiger. legalese be damned, human life is more important.
The only reason to capture him alive would be so we could try the gloves on him and see if they fit. And finally be done with the whole Nicole Simpson Ron Goldman murders.
In my opinion;
the attack on 9/11 was deemed an attack to all NATO allies (for the first time EVER). Ofcourse I can understand that some would say 'let us Americans handle him' and that is what happened. But since it seems for now that this man could be captured alive and brought to trial I believe they should have done so as we claim to obey the Geneva convention.
And for the question which trial he should go to: the international criminal court in the Hague
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...criminal_court
if anyone is interested, a fantastic panel discussion of Al Qaeda and its subgroups and its relevance 10 years since 9/11, really a treat for any COIN followers/observers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SwF97XwvX8
top notch panel including Peter Bergen and Steve Coll (author of Ghost Wars)
pretty much everyone is in agreement that AQ has become irrelevant, they are in dustbin of history.