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Originally Posted by kerry
No. It might have been better for the West that he die of kidney failure rather than as a martyr or from an 'unknown sickness'.
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The US only had three basic choices:
Capture him alive and have a long public trial with plenty of discussions of "intelligence sources";
Have him "disappear" and risk being perceived as ineffectual;
Assassinate him and risk creating a martyr.