This isn't a very important question--partly because we haven't caught him, )and probably won't catch him, because Bin Laden is apparently planning for to his own martyrdom in battle)--but mostly because it is one of those stupid PR/Photo op deals that look great on the news, but have little or no practical value--

Practically, whether Bin Laden is captured or killed, doesn't much matter--his elimination can be bloody and painful, or he is simply can be confined to a cream puff house where little fairies wait on him--getting him out of the way is all that really matters--

Or, rather, what really matters is the fact that, with all the money, energy and lives that have been expended, he still isn't out of the way--