Official says US still hopes to capture bin Laden

Washington: Attorney General Eric Holder
says the US would like to capture and interrogate Osama bin
Laden, but he still expects the al-Qaida leader will not be
taken alive.

The attorney general is testifying before the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
Last month, he told other lawmakers that bin Laden
likely will never face trial because he would be killed first.
Following those comments, the top US commander in Afghanistan
said it remains the goal of US troops to capture Osama bin
Laden alive and "bring him to justice."
Holder is telling lawmakers the goal of the US is to
capture bin Laden and extract intelligence from him, but past
reports suggest bin Laden`s security guards have orders not to
let him be captured alive.

PTI