WI: Bin Laden Captured Alive in 2001

I don't think he would ever get captured alive and go on trial.
Putting OBL on trial would jeopardize retaliatory terrorist attacks and make him a martyr in the eyes of sone radical islamists.
It's like in OTL: Capturing him alive was never the goal.
 

TinyTartar

Banned
:rolleyes:

Old Artillery shwlls which has been placed in a warehouse somewhere and forgitten about did not count as a chemical weapons programme as the Bush II admin claimed Iraq had and they did not try to present it as such.

There was no claim about a chem program, but there was a widespread (incorrect) belief in a nuclear program and a decision was made not to take a chance on it.

There were chemical weapons found, and used, and their existence is not in doubt. The idea that there was a comprehensive chemical weapon program of the likes that Assad had recently was one that nobody was claiming or believed, as for one thing, sanctions killed them, but for another, Saddam simply could not risk another Halabja in the post-Cold War era, as despite his craziness and slip into fundamentalism and more overt anti-Shiite racism, he knew that he could not give the world a reason to depose him, because he was on thin ice as it was.
 
Legally, would people who died as a result of jumping to their deaths be considered to have been murdered by the conspiracy, or would that be a different crime? Isn't there something called a legal fiction where you can argue that people normally don't jump from buildings, and thus they would be legally considered as having been murdered by falling from the building or something like that?

Wiki claims that "...deaths in the attacks except those of the hijackers were ruled to be homicides due to blunt trauma (as opposed to suicides).[4] The New York City medical examiner's office said it does not classify the people who fell to their deaths on September 11 as "jumpers": "A 'jumper' is somebody who goes to the office in the morning knowing that they will commit suicide. These people were forced out by the smoke and flames or blown out."[3]"
 

gaijin

Banned
There was no claim about a chem program, but there was a widespread (incorrect) belief in a nuclear program and a decision was made not to take a chance on it.

There were chemical weapons found, and used, and their existence is not in doubt. The idea that there was a comprehensive chemical weapon program of the likes that Assad had recently was one that nobody was claiming or believed, as for one thing, sanctions killed them, but for another, Saddam simply could not risk another Halabja in the post-Cold War era, as despite his craziness and slip into fundamentalism and more overt anti-Shiite racism, he knew that he could not give the world a reason to depose him, because he was on thin ice as it was.

The bolder part is complete and total bovine fecal matter.

Colin Powell made his famous speech on the United Nation security council and there he mentioned the notorious "mobile labs". I forgot wether the claim was that these labs were for biological or chemical weapons but that is besides the point.

The historical fact is that the war was sold as a "pre emptive" war because Iraq was claimed to have active non conventional weapons programs. This was of course patently untrue.

I don't mind if you have your own opinion on these things, however you can not have your own facts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_weapons_laboratory
 
As for Bin Laden being executed, which jurisdiction apply? New York, Washington DC, the States where the airplanes took off? I don't know the legalities, but not all states in the USA have death penalty

I'm sure there will be Federal charges, and the Federal government can use the death penalty. So UBL will be going to Terre Haute?
 
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