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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">z_illa</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">BobDesperado</strong> said:</div><div><br />
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	If he'd been captured - and remember, he was armed, so that may not even have been possible - then the most likely "future" would have involved an endless series of hostage-takings with the goal of getting him released.  <br />
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	<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54162.html#ixzz1LIXRsv75">a senior White House official said bin Laden was not armed when he was killed</a><br />
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	Yawn.</div></blockquote>
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	I hadn't seen that report yet.  <br />
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	Are you also yawning at the likelihood of hostage-takings?<br />
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	And this: "However, subsequent briefings by US officials suggest that, when confronted at the high-security complex in Abbottabad, Bin Laden did not have a weapon and did not fire at his assailants. With some questions being raised as to why Bin Laden was shot dead, and whether he was executed, rather than taken into custody, Brennan said: "If we had the opportunity to take Bin Laden alive, if he didn't present any threat, the individuals involved were able and prepared to do that."<br />
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	Officials have continued to imply he offered resistance before he was shot but have not clarified the extent of that resistance, given that he apparently did not have a weapon. Bin Laden was shot once above the left eye and once in the chest. The Obama administration is considering whether to release photographs of his burial at sea."<br />
	http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/03/osama-bin-laden-us-changes-story?intcmp=239

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