Summary
At this writing (May 4), it appears the primary plan was to kill Osama bin Laden, rather than capture him and put him on trial.
Yes, the mission to capture him would have compounded the difficulties of an already risk-filled mission. Keeping the prisoner secure both from those who would try to kill him and from those who would try to rescue him would have been a headache. Putting bin Laden on trial would have given him a platform for proclaiming his ideology of terror.See the full content of this document
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Capture or Kill ?
But to shrink from doing the right thing out of fea...
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