Originally Posted by DVTimes

I suspect it was agreed to shoot him before the raid.

Which as I say you can understand.

To keep him alive would be such a pain.

Remeber the chap who was leader of Iraq. The trial became a faorce and his death a discrace. The last thing the USA wanted was that.

And in this case I suspect it would have been (the trial) in the USA. That alone would have coused problems as some would insist on him being trialed in other countries.

The killing of him was not moraly right. It was murder. But in truth if I was the Presedent, it the option he had to take. Solved more problems than it created.

You can imagine if he was on trial, all the tv coverage he would get.