They would have taken him alive according to one gent, but going in they knew it would be a very small chance of that happening and they admitted so. If they were met with any type of resistance he was to be killed.

Any who, keeping him alive at this point would have created more problems, controversy and tension in the middle east IMO.

I’m armed and I’m drinking. You don’t want to listen to advice from me, amigo.

-Max Payne