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Want to Know: The White House Fields Kids' Questions on Bin
Laden   Perhaps recognizing that talking about Osama bin Laden's
death with school age kids can be tricky for teachers, the White
House hosted a unique 30-minute webinar on Thursday specifically
for middle and high school students. More than 2,000 teens
listened to Ben Rhodes, deputy assistant to the President and
deputy national security advisor for strategic communications
and speechwriting, explain the nuts and bolts of 9/11, the
10-year search for bin Laden, and the raid that ended with his
death. Rhodes then spent 15 minutes taking questions.  Here are
some of the questions:  Q. Why not capture bin Laden and put him
on trial, like was done with Saddam Hussein? A. He did not
surrender, and the U.S. servicemen were met with "resistance".
Q. Why was he buried at sea? A. "Best and simplest thing to do,"
given the 24-hour burial requirements of his religion, Islam,
Rhodes said.  Q. What DN