Bin Laden will never be caught alive, says US attorney general

Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive, the US attorney general told Congress today.

In testy exchanges with House Republicans, Eric Holder compared bin Laden to mass murderer Charles Manson and predicted that events would ensure “we will be reading (a right to remain silent) to the corpse of Osama bin Laden”, not to the al-Qaida leader as a captive.