Obama hoped to capture bin Laden, new book says
A new book says President Barack Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial if he had surrendered during a US raid.
In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full rights of a criminal defendant, to show US justice applies even to him. In the book, purchased by The Associated Press, Bowden says Obama said he expected the terror leader to go down fighting. (AP)
