U.S. official: Bin Laden will never face trial in U.S.

No surprise. He's told his body guards are to kill him before he's captured. < :-)

If Bin Laden is alive (I have my doubts) and is taken alive then no one should ever see or hear about it. He should simply be made to disappear. Going before a court will give him a stage in front of the world, something he should never be given. When he is found guilty as he obviously will be because the US could never allow anything else, the US would then have a prisoner they really don’t want. How many American hostages will be taken around the world from that point on with demand for his release? No, this is a man that no one wants take alive.

He's told his body guards are to kill him before he's captured.

If Bin Laden is alive (I have my doubts) and is taken alive then no one should ever see or hear about it.

I'd prefer to see a soldier put a round in him after being captured. Court Martial, probably, but I don't know a lot of people who would even think twice. In any case I don't think he'd make it to court.

I like to imagine the mental and spiritual torment he is now in, watching Iraq - which he personally declared the most important battle facing his demented followers - organising after its second free elections a new democratically-elected government.

"Why has Allah abandoned me like this?"

"How many innocents have I sent to a meaningless death?"

I'd prefer to see a soldier put a round in him after being captured.

I'd want to be the one to put a round. or empty a couple of clips in him. I wouldn't know what I'd enjoy more. Filling him with lead, or getting the $50 million bounty.

Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.

If bin Laden were to be captured no one can predict what the circumstances would be. This isn't even a serious answer. Holder only makes ridiculous statements like this to avoid answering questions directly. He doesn't want to make an honest and straight forward answer to the very legitimate question as to how bin Laden would be handled if captured. The reason he won't provide an answer is because he doesn't have one. President Obama and Holder are just making things up as they go along hoping that their appeasement of America's bitter enemies will not damage them politically. They do not deal in reality but in their nether world of ideological idealism. Yet another amateurish performance by Obama's administration.

He'll never face trial because he's more than likely been dead for several years now. What better boogieman than one that doesn't exist?

The simple solution is to try him in abstentia. If he pops out of his hole to plead not guilty, whack him.

I guess he'll never get the chance to say that he had nothing to do with 911.

Would be nice to see him wearing orange prison garb. I'd also like a pony.

He is already dead, so who cares about him any more?

" . . . the American public’s desire to treat terrorists as wartime enemies . . . "

My B.S. meter went off immediately with this statement. The American public didn't give a crap about backdoor wrangled legalese like "enemy combatants" or "wartime enemies."

These were concepts thrust onto the American public by a Bush Administration seeking to justify the use of torture, thus overtunring years of dmoestic and internation norms banning the same.

This song and dance from conservatives that essentially says the social, politicalm and legal institutions of the "Aresenal of Democracy" are too weak and fragile to withstand perceived threats from a trial. As an American, I take issue with that assessment, as should any other American who has more faith in our democracy than these critics apparently do. If we don't have faith that our nation can stand up a captive, frail old man, then what the hell are we fighting for in the first place?

My B.S. meter went off immediately with this statement. The American public didn't give a crap about backdoor wrangled legalese like "enemy combatants" or "wartime enemies." These were concepts thrust onto the American public by a Bush Administration seeking to justify the use of torture, thus overtunring years of dmoestic and internation norms banning the same.

I find it odd that 'torture' was never an issue when Clinton was in office.

"The Clinton administration pioneered the use of extraordinary rendition after the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. But it also pressed allied intelligence services to respect lawful boundaries in interrogations."http://www.why-war.com/news/2002/12/26/torturet.html

"Pressed"!, I say.

I am certain Holder is aware that the so-called Bin Laden Units were formed by the CIA back in 1996 and 1998.

Here is Richard Miniter (Losing Bin Laden) discussing how they did it back before George W Bush, The Cowboy, arrived on the scene:

" With the help of the CTC, forty terrorists from the former Yugoslavia were captured and turned over to Arab governments, usually Egypt. Egyptian security is believed to have tortured, tried, and executed many of them. In this way, al Qaeda cells were quickly smashed in Albania, Bosnia, and elsewhere."

Personally, I think back to the Battle of the Bulge. Nazis caught in Allied uniform were executed on the spot.

Modern day totalitarian perps of crimes against humanity get off pretty easy if you ask me.

Wouldn't they have to find him first?

I'd like to see him dressed like an American tourist at Disneyland. I want to see the "I'm with stupid" T-Shirt and full-on Goofy hat with ears and shorts that in no way match. If they ever do catch him that's how I want him to be dressed in front of the public.

He just might cought up a hell of lot of useful information. Maybe even tip us off to the next big terrorist attack or what targets are being currently looked at. But no, this guy talks about giving in to monkey rage, and so do some of you!

Quickly excecuting America's most wanted man would not only be stupid and unAmerica, it would also be treasonous! That is right, it would be treasonous! It would make bin Laden a martyr and al-Quaida is still out there and still will be without bin.

I don't even want to hear about images of bin Laden in Heaven with virgins, not for a long time. What I want is for everyone to know that he had his trial and now lives in a concrete cell like a dog.

But with $50 Million...I wouldn't care what anybody thinks.