Bin Laden tells Americans ‘you’ll never take me alive’

OSAMA bin Laden has vowed never to be captured alive and said the US military had become as “barbaric” as Saddam Hussein in an audiotape posted on a militant website.

The tape was the same as an audio first broadcast January 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel, in which bin Laden offered the US a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaida terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil.

US intelligence officials confirmed that the January 19 tape was bin Laden making it his first message in more than a year.