I believe that BL's capture could actually trigger a huge increase in terrorism. BL is like a messiah to these 13th-century morons, unlike Saddam, who was the dictator of a secular nation state. How do you put a fundamentalist ideology on trial? and where? New York? At any rate, there are hundreds if not thousands of freaks just like BL waiting to step up and take his place.
Capturing BL is not the end of terrorism. I just don't see it.