How was Bin Laden a "legitimate military threat" when he didn't/couldn't even leave his compound and no one wh?

seems to me he was in very much the same situation on September 11, 2001. you know, the day HIS boys flew some high jacked planes into the WTC and Pentagon! besides, he was a "symbol of the glorious Jihad!"whose' death was a serious blow to Al Qaida. good riddance to bad rubbish and I hope his body landed on something that violates Sharia!