Questions Grow Over Why Troops Didn’t Capture Him Alive
by Jason Ditz, May 03, 2011
A number of the details surrounding the Obama Administration’s initial account of the Sunday slaying of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan have been revised by officials today. The most noteworthy of these is the claim that bin Laden was killed in an intense firefight, and that officials really hoped to take him alive.
Despite emphasizing this in their initial account, officials are now confirming that there was no firefight in the room in which bin Laden was killed, and that the al-Qaeda founder was entirely unarmed when he was shot in the head by Navy SEALs.
Updated: 4 May 2011 – Bin Laden Story Continues to Change by Jason Ditz