So what do you propose, tina?
Send in cops, into a room with a guy with a Kalashnikov and Uzi and maybe wearing explosives, and try to arrest him? I guess you’re going to explain that to the families of those cops at their funerals.
Have a sniper take him out from the window? Great, there goes your living, walking and talking source of intelligence which could lead to the capture of 50 other similar guys who are currently ticking time bombs all around the world.
Fundamentalist Muslims talk at interrogations. They’re not like Irish terrorists, for example, who won’t say a word whatever they do to them.
They want this guy ALIVE and with good reason.