Osama Bin Laden's Body Buried at Sea, Official Says

Source: KBOI News

(WASHINGTON) -- In accordance with Islamic law, the body of Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea, a U.S. official told ABC News.

Officials said the last thing they wanted is for bin Laden's burial place to become a terrorist shrine. In order to avoid that, his body was laid to rest at sea, leaving no definitive location for the final resting place of his body.

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me too

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It's a keeper!

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I can't figure out human psychology sometimes.

I mean really why the Christ did they bury Saddam then?

What will they do with KSM's body? Was Al-Zarqawi put into the water too?

made of the burial sites for previously killed terrorists.

Saddam's body was taken by his tribe. I don't know who would have taken Bin Ladin's. His family disowned him. I'm sure Pakistan and Saudi Arabia don't want him.

wouldnt this be the kind of body that you would have a 3rd party verify the identity of?


I always wanted to hear bin laden testify at a trial and explain who he was working for.

This story is so bizarre. Dead and buried in hours.

This will fuel speculation for the rest of history...

They require that a body be buried within 24 hours of death.

Since Bin Laden was killed almost a day ago, "burying" him by now is usual custom.

I'm sure they have actual video of his body with a bullet through the head, before they wrapped him and dumped him at sea.

Also, they already have DNA evidence, having collected samples from one or more of his brothers.

Then they would just have to compare the Y chromosome, since all male siblings of a family share the same Y chromosome.

Furthermore, how many 6' 5" Saudi nationals with marks from kidney dialysis would be in Pakistan?

say if the death occurred on the sabbath or to allow time for close relatives to attend.

"Furthermore, how many 6' 5" Saudi nationals with marks from kidney dialysis would be in Pakistan?"

There are 170 million people in Pakistan. And I don't think you can tell whether a guy was Saudi just by looking at his corpse.

...they wraped the carcase in swine leather before dumping it.

I imagine that in this particular case in allowing deference to the corpse, the possibility for an even greater martyrdom than already present is lessened to by X degrees.

BBC doc at link -- The Power of Nightmares
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOlwbaPe2os

His family is known of and respected in many parts of the world. He was once a well known leader (for his people) in the battle against the Soviets. I can't be sure what his real motivation was, he was once someone who was a US ally that we supported. When the Soviets finally left, there was much cheering, many pats on the back. Then a bunch of suits in Washington came to the conclusion that no one really gave a damn about rebuilding Afghanistan, or playing a real significant part in helping them to create a safer, more prosperous Nation.

That in itself didn't make OBL a madman or justify his actions - as a general rule, madmen need no justification to commit terrible crimes. Yet it is in part how he gained so much support from thousands of people.

To an extent, our actions during the Soviet era were good and well intentioned, but we seriously screwed up the end game. Had we done differently and given our support to the people of Afghanistan in rebuilding their Nation, OBL might never have become the threat that he did. He certainly would not have had the support he has, not even from extremists. Could we have prevented the rise of the Taliban and the growth of organizations like Al Qaeda? Perhaps, perhaps not. Hindsight...

He saw afghan people suffer and fight against the soviets with US help, once the soviets left the usa just wanted to exploit the hash and heroin. Bin laden may have had good logical reasons to go after the twin towers and pentagon, symbols of US military and economic hegemony over people around the world. The question i had is did bin laden have accomplices inside our government who had different motivations but liked the idea of attacking the usa.

so long as other parties identified the body before it was buried it is ok, photos, dna were taken i hope. we will see what comes out in the next days.

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briefly and it was soon removed. Sometimes people will post (since anybody can) but this simply said "Osama bin Laden, shot" with no references. Now I wonder if this was part of the run up to it, maybe somebody jumped the gun?

If my cousin Hank says it true, it's true. :/

That's the first thing I thought when a friend of mine PM'd me last night. My first reaction was he's probably been dead about 7 years. This is conveeeeeenient though.

honestly, with the shit that we face now, Bin Laden is low on my scale, but I do know this gives military men and women some hope that now they may be leaving the middle east.

Of course, that's not gonna happen, because we were never there in the middle east for anything but oil.

then what are the odds that they would lie to protect him? Besides, if he was dead and buried, then all Al Queda would do is exhume the remains, have an independent body conduct DNA analysis, and expose Obama as a liar.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

That's the quickest Bin collection ever. Especially as it's a Bank Holiday

To bury the dead quickly. I guess Muslims bury people even more quickly than Jews do.

:spank:

(albeit it from someone who got the joke!)
:hi:

we (supposed to) respect the dead bodies of others instead of dragging them through the town square.

There is also respect issue when people think about tossing a body into the ocean. But it begins to make more sense if the US had no one to deliver the body to.

so if his pards ever try to recover the big stiff, they'll never be seen of heard from, again.

carcass meat for the fish, ya know...the blood from his head wound led the way for the fish...

Sorry, sometimes I can't help myself.

Better spray some Corexit from a crop duster drone to disperse that despotic dip-shit.(Binny and The Jetstream)

Source: Guardian

Bin Laden's body buried at sea
US officials say Osama bin Laden's swift burial complies with Islamic custom, although burial at sea is uncommon for Muslims

The dilemma of what to do with Osama bin Laden's body appears to have been quickly resolved if reports that he has been buried at sea prove correct.

Burying him on land could have led to his grave becoming a centre of contention as well as raising questions about where he should be buried.

"Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult," a US official said, adding: "So, the US decided to bury him at sea."

Fears about his burial place turning into a shrine for Islamists were probably unfounded, since the Wahhabi/Salafi tradition rejects such things. Even Saudi kings are buried in unmarked graves.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/bin-laden-body-buried-sea?CMP=twt_fd

dispels any mention elsewhere of Saudi not wanting him buried there.

Barbaric?, Yes, So what, makes me very primal. Rot in hell or in a crab's belly.

No way they would do this before presenting proof that they have him.

Now the whole thing sounds like a campaign trick.

Damn!

how did they know it was him?

and What did they throw in the sea?...I'm suspicious too.

he all of a sudden turns around and starts supporting his old Democratic ideals after years of moving more and more to the right.

Everyone is touting his new leftish push right now but I'm sure it's only campaigning and not real.

I'll bet right after the election he spins around and heads off to the right again.

I'm sorry. I just don't feel I can trust any of these guys anymore after so many years of this crap.

that he MAY be serious about his new/old Democratic ideals

but I'm not betting on it.:shrug:

The news of his death might very well be true but I'm with you, our government has lied to us so many times that I don't believe anything they say anymore.

begin. Bravo, sir.

Keep going...It's worked so well

in the politics of the last

decade, sir:eyes:

- I can't understand why so many people are taking it as truth without question. I think we can expect a very large explosion sometime soon. :tinfoilhat:

1 - the U.S. says they did not tell the Pakistan government until after the assault. Pakistan says they helped plan it.
2 - the U.S. says they have done DNA tests to confirm the death as well as facial recognition (he was shot in the head)
3 - was there any outside verifiers to confirm the DNA or facial confirmation prior to getting rid of the body? (or just take our word for it)
4 - to be technical, the U.S. dropped military personal into the city of a sovereign country and assassinated people without the "approval" from said government. (against international law)

I'm just saying...

I'm sure they checked his birth certificate.

Not telling the Pakistani government was a no-brainer. The government was in bin Laden's pocket.

You think being shot in the head makes facial recognition impossible? What, they used a shot gun?

The U.S. government doesn't give a flying leap about International law (or the U.S. Constitution.)

the US government only pays lip service to international law when it suites them as for the constitutional law, its more like they dont realize that they are failing to live up to the spirit of the Constitution by only sticking to the letter of it.

Pakistan said they helped plan it.
Depends on what caliber used and location of hit. Were there any independent verifications regarding identifying Osama?
I look forward to seeing photos or video of the invisible man.

I can see some budget saving now that we don't have to give them (Pakistan) billions to use against us. Pakistan is and has been for sale to the highest bidder, an allie only when bought off. He has been living in plain sight 60 miles from their capitol for quite sometime. A lot of methodical time & efforts went into triple checking everything before JSOC went in.

If the Pakistani government was sheltering him them too fucking bad - they are lucky that embarrassment is the worse thing to happen to them.

Why would Obama lie when the lie could so easily be exposed? What do you think happened to OBL?

where is it?

Anywhere else would become a shrine and place of pilgrimage for extremists.

:eyes:

Yup. I used to think the Repigs cornered the market on no brain cells with the birthers. Then I read DU people running around like chicken little about minute amounts of radiation known to not be harmful; they'd rather see coal, which has slaughtered tens of thousands of people in use. Now the bin Laden death conspiracy nuts are out in force.

My opinion of Democrats' brain cells is now only slightly better than my opinion of Republicans'.

may not be who you think they are, or who they are posing to be. We all know what's been going on at DU lately, and it appears they are here in force these last few hours.

Pakistan or Afghanistan must have great DNA testing labs. They can do DNA testing faster than US Hospitals can do a blood test.

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gullible .... sheep....

It rather sums up the whole exercise.

International affairs now reduced to mafia style hits.

They needed to bury him somewhere on land so that the body could be exhumed and re-tested for DNA if enough doubts arose. By disposing of the body in a completely inaccessible place, the only "proof" of his death we can hold up to the rest of the world are photos (which can easily be faked) and non-verifiable DNA reports from U.S. military/intelligence medical staff (even more so). I can easily see people claiming down the line that the U.S. got a double of ObL, fabricated the "evidence" of his death, and disposed of the body where it could not be found so that the supposed cover-up could never be discovered.

there will always be doubts - look at the Birthers or 911 Truthers. There is always one minor inconsistency that becomes the next "smoking gun".