WI Bin Laden was kiddnapped just after 9/11?

King Thomas

Banned
What if just after 9/11, the USA had sent in the finest of their Special Forces and, without warning, kiddnapped Bin Laden and three or four of his top lieutenants? Also in this timeline there is no invasion of Iraq as it had nothing to do with 9/11, no outright bombing/invasion by the US armed forces of Afganistan, and no Gitmo Bay prison (or if there is one it only holds the genuine worst of the worst.)

Bin Laden in this timeline would get a jury trial, but in New York state.
 

Anaxagoras

Banned
Hmm. . . not too likely, if you ask me. American policy, announced on the very day of the attacks, was the consider those who harbored terrorists in the same light as terrorists. That being the case, I think the urge to punish the Taliban for allowing Bin Laden to operate from Afghanistan would have been so strong that an invasion would take place anyway.

Politically speaking, I am not sure that the American people would have been satisfied by simply bringing Bin Laden to trial.
 
Maybe if the US had a operation already on the way, eyes on the target so to speak. I think he might have stand trial avoiding the sreading of the constitution.
 
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