Osama Bin Laden is captured alive

What if instead of being gunned down by US Navy SEALS in his home in Abottabad, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden, the world's worst terrorist, was instead taken prisoner and spirited away to the United States to stand trial for his crimes?
 

Archibald

Banned
He his publically humiliated when contains of his computer HD are revealed to the world during his trial "Crochet, porn, and Mr. Bean. Oh really ?" the entire world laugh in his face.
 
I’m guessing there’ll be a legal argument over the circumstances of his “spirited away,” his lawyers would probably argue that his extraordinary rendition was illegal.

If he goes to trial I’d suspect he’d reveal details of his past dealings with the CIA and other western intelligence services. The whole thing will be a circus and very embarrassing for a lot of people. Therefore despite whatever official orders had been given I doubt the SEALS seriously tried to take him alive.
 

Archibald

Banned
More seriously ? he don't give a freck, spend his time either mute (or shouting extremist diatribes against the entire world). He would certainly got death penalty, and love it.

alternatively, Zacarias Moussaoui fate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacarias_Moussaoui

On May 13, 2006, Moussaoui was moved from his holding cell in Alexandria, Virginia and transported via JPATS to the supermax United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, located near Florence, Colorado.[47] The facility—considered the most secure federal penitentiary—is called the "Alcatraz of the Rockies".[48] He has the Federal Bureau of Prisons number 51427-054

Depuis le 13 mai 2006, Zacarias Moussaoui purge sa peine, sous le matricule 51427-054, dans la prison ADX de Florence, prison de très haute sécurité, dans le Colorado. Il n'en sortira jamais. Il ne sera au contact d'aucun autre détenu. Il est enfermé 23 heures sur 24 et sa seule sortie quotidienne se fait dans une pièce où il reste seul mais peut soulever de la fonte. Il dispose d'un petit poste de télévision noir et blanc de 13 pouces de diagonale qui diffuse uniquement des programmes éducatifs. Il n'a droit à aucune visite.

Locked 23 hours a day in his cell. He has a small black and white TV broadcasting educational programs and not connected to the outside world. During 1 hour he stays alone in a room where he can do some sport. No visit of any kind is ever allowed. And it will stay like this until he dies (or Yellowstone supervolcano triggers the end of human civilization).
 
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What a trial that would have been on Court TV, making the OJ trial look like kindergarten. I could see Osama having a defense lawyer from Johnny Cochrane's law firm and Nancy "Guilty until proven innocent!" Grace as a prosecutor. George Bush Jr. and Dick "Darth" Cheney are witnesses for the prosecution.
 
Supposedly, the SAS had him cornered at one point in late 2001 in the mountains, but were told to back off and let the US forces capture him. They failed and he got away.
 

James G

Gone Fishin'
I don't think that there was ever any intention of letting OBL leaving that villa alive. If he did, I doubt that the US would want to put him on trial. The embarrassment of what high-minded defence lawyers might want to present as evidence for the defence (the rumours of that because most would be supressed from being said in open court) would cause too much political damage. So, let's say he is captured alive... then he ends up in a black site somewhere.
 
He becomes a major bargaining chip. The terrorists would demand to trade him for someone like Bergdahl, or take a high profile hostage and try to trade, or launch a series of attacks with the demand that he be released.

So if we take him alive, we have to tell everyone we killed him and buried him at sea. (Not saying that's what really happened, just that the official story in OTL is what we would have said anyway).
 
Might be a bit embarrasing when he starts telling how high level officials in the Saudi govt paid for his little terrorist Empire. Also how the Saudis paid the Pakistani ISI intelligence service $25million a year to keep him safe.
 
The raid might have been intended to take him alive,they had a lawyer for him on the mission.But after the helicopter crash it became a kill mission.
 
Would it even be possible for him to get a trial? He was the most hated man in the US for over a decade. Would any defense attorney even take the case? I mean the amount of death threats or assassination attempts any counsel would face would steer most off. That's assuming Bin Laden would survive to trial. Even if he did survive to trial how could it possibly be a fair one? The man was so obviously guilty and so widely and intensely hated that finding a jury would be difficult to say the least.
 

James G

Gone Fishin'
Would it even be possible for him to get a trial? He was the most hated man in the US for over a decade. Would any defense attorney even take the case? I mean the amount of death threats or assassination attempts any counsel would face would steer most off. That's assuming Bin Laden would survive to trial. Even if he did survive to trial how could it possibly be a fair one? The man was so obviously guilty and so widely and intensely hated that finding a jury would be difficult to say the least.
There will be someone who would take the case as a defence attorney. Someone who truly believes in a fair trail and the rule of law. I don't know who, but I am certain there would have been if it ever got that far (which I've said I believe it wouldn't). Whether that lawyer would understand how much flak they would get first is debateable.
I can't recall who it was, but there was someone in the 50s US who defended the atomic traitors on principle. That's the type of person I am thinking of.
 
He his publically humiliated when contains of his computer HD are revealed to the world during his trial "Crochet, porn, and Mr. Bean. Oh really ?" the entire world laugh in his face.
Considering he lived with several wives and children, the variety of his files is not surprising. Crochet for the women, anime for the kids and porn and OBL films* for himself.

*seriously, there's at least three on there.
 
Look at the utter mess the trial (which hasn't been held yet) of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad has been.

He becomes a major bargaining chip. The terrorists would demand to trade him for someone like Bergdahl, or take a high profile hostage and try to trade, or launch a series of attacks with the demand that he be released.

All of which would fail, since to get Osama to be released, you'd need a hostage of the status of the President of the United States, or perhaps taking a major city hostage with the threat launch a dirty bomb attack (or hell, a tactical nuke or something).

Considering he lived with several wives and children, the variety of his files is not surprising. Crochet for the women, anime for the kids and porn and OBL films* for himself.

*seriously, there's at least three on there.

And hentai like Bible Black, lol
 
There will be someone who would take the case as a defence attorney. Someone who truly believes in a fair trail and the rule of law. I don't know who, but I am certain there would have been if it ever got that far (which I've said I believe it wouldn't). Whether that lawyer would understand how much flak they would get first is debateable.
I can't recall who it was, but there was someone in the 50s US who defended the atomic traitors on principle. That's the type of person I am thinking of.

Agreed, there will either be some "high-minded" type who will take the case on the idea that "everyone deserves a lawyer" or some publicity-hound who will do it for the fame ala OJ. But Osama is NOT OJ and they will never see the grief that will come from this...
 
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