President Barack Obama meets with Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, aboard Air Force One in Copenhagen, Denmark on Oct. 2, 2009.U.S. Commander Says Bringing Bin Laden To Justice Remains Goal -- Washington Post
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said Wednesday that the military would "certainly" try to capture Osama bin Laden alive and "bring him to justice" -- contradicting remarks by a top Obama administration official.
Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that bin Laden would never go on trial in the United States because the chances of him being caught alive were "infinitesimal." He predicted flatly that bin Laden would either be killed by U.S. forces or by al-Qaeda operatives determined to prevent him from falling into enemy hands.
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More News On Gen. McChrystal's Comments On Osama Bin Laden
Senior Officials at Odds Over Bin Laden -- FOX News
US still wants to capture bin Laden alive: general -- Raw Story/AFP
US military: Goal still to capture bin Laden alive -- TPM/AP
My Comment: General McChrystal obviously did not trouble himself with reading what US Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday ....
“He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people so he can’t be captured by us. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.” — Attorney General Eric Holder
Ooooopppsss .....
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