LarryJ wrote:
"It appears to me this is just another attempt to buy time and end the bombing by making an offer they know no one will accept. It's a play to the gullible. Besides, if last week's reports are true, bin Laden basically bankrolls the Taliban and controls most of their military forces. There's virtually no way they'd ever turn him over. "

BUT! (and this is a BIG but......)
What if Bin Laden in his (un)Holiness decides he WANTS the world stage to air his beefs? What if he WANTED to go on trial??
Wouldn't this give us the chance to present him to the world and his followers as the madman he really is?

At least you'd have him under wraps, and you'd have a contained situation to deal with. Maybe even make some deals.
(Converting him to Christianity would definately be out, just as prayer with John Ashcroft would be.....)