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Since Osama was not a US citizen and was not on US soil, he had no legal rights under American law.

Human rights apply to everyone. Of course, the US is free to ignore them if it feels it does not give shit about them. In which case I would suggest to stop considering the US to be part of the western world.

Had he been captured and held for a show trial, every jihadi on the planet would have been out there taking hostages all over the world, demanding Osama's release in exchange for the lives of the hostages. He could have been delivered to the International Criminal Court. Where he actually belonged to for crimes against humanity. He would have faced a fair trial not a show trial and you would not have to be concerned for terror risk as that court is way outside of the US.

But if the US would not have liked that idea they were free to conduct a fair trial by themselves.

And as far as it comes to hostage taking. This is nothing new, its happening in my areas no matter if theres a Bin Laden imprisoned or not.

How many unjustified deaths would that have caused? All the panty wetting over this issue is self-serving nonsense by either Obama haters who will condemn whatever Obama does or sanctimonious liberals trying to look noble on the cheap. None of it is worth the time of day. I know human rights are considered by some something exclusively for "sanctimonious liberals trying to look noble on the cheap" but I thin these very human rights are the difference, or at least should be the difference between us and these terrorists.