Dead or alive? US indecision over killing Bin Laden

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After 9/11, President George W Bush made an apparently simple statement about Osama Bin Laden: "Wanted - Dead or Alive."

But the question whether to kill him or capture him was a subject of controversy in Washington for long periods during the 15-year hunt for the al-Qaeda leader.

For the five years before 9/11 the "dead or alive?" question was left unanswered, and the ambiguity returned with the US raid in Abbottabad, in which Bin Laden died in May this year.

The officials involved now dispute who is responsible for the confusion, and for the failure to kill him for so long.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14115327