Are you sitting down? God loves Osama bin Laden as much as he loves you. God wants Osama bin Laden to enter heaven as much as he wants you and I to enter heaven.
The difference is that Osama bin Laden has chosen to reject the common laws of God which are written on the hearts of men. The Muslim, Buddhist, heck - atheist - who, by no fault of their own has never received the Gospel, yet lives by the laws of God written on their heart, can receive salvation.
Take a good look at the parable of the workers who came late to the work day and received the same pay as those who were there all along. You DARE to limit God in His mercy???
You, I, your neighbor - no one knows what happens at the moment of death. You cannot suppose that Christ doesn't come to these people and offer them the grace to accept or reject His Divinity and mercy at the moment of death. I believe this is a strong possibility. On the flip side, I have not a single ounce of authority to declare one person "saved" and another person "not saved".
Yes, this is the comments I get from many Protestants as well. I don't buy it, sitting down or standing up.
If God wants Osama bin Laden saved God will see to it personally just as He did with Paul. Will He do so? I don't know. If He does it will be to reveal His glory and all Christians can rejoice. If God doesn't intervene and extend His mercy and grace to Osama bin Laden then Mr. bin Laden will be on the side of those who God finds no pleasure in for whatever His divine reasons are. May God's will be done in this matter. But I'm confident that God could bring him to Himself if he so deemed.
God doesn't love everyone contrary to popular opinion. To think otherwise cheapens the love that God has for you, me and all other Christians. Jacob He loves. Esau He hates.