US Attorney General: Unlikely that Bin Laden will be Captured Alive

Attorney General Eric Holder says that the United States still intends to capture al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden - alive, if possible.  Holder testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, defending President Barack Obama's detainee policies.

Attorney General Holder sought to clarify comments he made last month that Osama bin Laden would not face trial in a U.S. federal court.  Holder said the reason he said that was because intelligence reports indicate that bin Laden's security guards are under instructions not to let him be taken alive, if he is surrounded by U.S. forces.

Holder made clear that bin Laden is still the United State's number one target to capture or, if necessary, kill.

"Our hope would be to capture him and to interrogate him, to get useful intelligence from him about the structure of al-Qaida, about al-Qaida's plans," said Eric Holder.

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