I dunno, I think a part of me believes that if a situation arises where bin Laden were potentially captured that maybe they would permit it if it were unavoidable. Wouldn't it be a kind of powerful martyrdom to be executed by the "infidel" Americans?
The Americans would execute him, right?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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