More thoughts about Osama.

My one lawyer friend from Missouri said that if he had been taken alive, the trial would have been a mess, since no country would want to hold it.

She also said that it would have been very difficult to put together evidence showing he was a mastermind of 9/11, since the most public evidence was of him just *claiming* it.

We had mixed feelings about Osama not being taken alive, and the fact that he had not had a gun (that news had just been released when we were talking).

Later, though, I was thinking that Al Qaeda did a shoe-bombing, so if he wasn't standing stock-still, who the heck knows what could have been happening. It made total sense to shoot him in the head (could he have had bombs on him?).