Osama bin Laden apparently told the West in his tape released last month that he would never be taken alive -- a scenario that fits quite nicely with US plans:

Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the United States had resorted to the same "barbaric" tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaeda leader that was posted Monday on a militant website.

The tape appeared to be a complete version of one that was first broadcast Jan. 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel, in which bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaeda terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil.

"I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived," bin Laden said, in the 11-minute, 26-second tape.

Bin Laden also compared the actions of the US in Iraq to the "criminality" of Saddam, a passage that USA Today says denies Bush administration assertions that a link existed between Saddam and al-Qaeda. Only an American newspaper would make that kind of statement. Plenty of links between Saddam and AQ have already been proven; what's at issue is whether those links came into play for the 9/11 attacks.

Nevertheless, for once we find ourselves in agreement with Bin Laden. Let's not capture him. Let's just seal the entrance to whatever cave he currently calls home and leave him to rot. Otherwise, we'll only wind up with Ramsey Clark representing Osama and telling us how misunderstood the terrorist really is. I'd consider that torture of the worst kind.

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