Should Bin Laden have been taken alive?

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Shooting him in the head was bringing him to justice, don't be ridiculous. I don't support many things the US government does but killing Bin Laden at any oppourtunity was a no brainer. It wasn't his wife that took a bullet in the leg either, apparently it was his couriers. The fact that after everything he was supposed to stand for he would still use a woman to shield himself although death was imminent, just shows what a truce spineless coward he was in actuality, I thought that bit was quite poetic in fact. It's mind numbing to read some of the stuff people have written about this already. He was in a compound less than 5kms from Pakistans most prestigous Military academy. Of course the Pakistani Gov't or military on some level knew he was there, leaving cooperation with Pakistan completely impossible. Also, although this is extremely doubtful, the US officials involved had said that he would be captured alive if there wasn't resistance, which clearly wasn't the case regardless.

What is your source for the part bolded above? I have read differently, but the stories seem to be changing by the hour.

My apologies, I indeed misquoted the article I read. The woman Bin Laden used as a shield who was apparently died was the wife of his courier, and it is believed that the one shot in the leg was his( makes a bit more sense anyways I guess). They released photographs today of the compound and several men who had been shot dead, they are extremely gruesome images, apparently taken by Pakistani journalists and sold independently. One looks a lot like Bin Laden and is believed to be one of the sons he decided to keep around. It's extremely fishy to me that they have not released a photograph of Bin Laden himself, which Obama has claimed does exist, but decided against releasing to the public. I think it was a link from Yahoo or MSN actually but I completely misread it, my bad again.