>> If the CIA/US military was sure of his guilt, why didn't they bring him before a court? Well, they killed him, so there's that. Hard to bring a dead man to

>> If the CIA/US military was sure of his guilt, why didn't they bring him before a court? Well, they killed him, so there's that. Hard to bring a dead man to trial. Also... it was Obama's desire to try Osama bin Laden. “We worked through the legal and political issues that would have been involved, and Congress and the desire to send him to Guantánamo, and to not try him, and Article III.” Obama continues: “I mean, we had worked through a whole bunch of those scenarios. But, frankly, my belief was if we had captured him, that I would be in a pretty strong position, politically, here, to argue that displaying due process and rule of law would be our best weapon against al-Qaeda, in preventing him from appearing as a martyr.” There is no doubt that bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks on 9/11. It is not remotely controversial or in any way disputed.