All criminals are equal, but some are more equal than others

After the Second World War, Nazi War criminals were hunted down, arrested and tried in Courts of Law (remember the Nuremberg trials, the Auschwitz trials and so on). More recently, Radovan Karadzic, accused of war crimes and genocide in Bosnia, including the Srebrenica massacre where 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were killed, was arrested and is currently being tried in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands. But apparently, a different yardstick applies to criminals such as Saddam Hussain, Osama Bin Laden and some others. No court cases for them, but instant justice. 

All criminals are equal, but some are more equal than others. Obviously, Osama was not one of them.