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You bet your ass it was.
The hard liner Pakistani's are going to have a ****ing fit tommorow.
Probably today.
You bet your ass it was.
The hard liner Pakistani's are going to have a ****ing fit tommorow.
Probably today.
Jeez, who'da thunk? I actually agree with you.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees.... BUT... what type of people would most likely make a pilgrimage? Terrorist idiots and at best terrorist sympathizers. So, like Iraq, we can use this as a point to concentrate idiocy and eliminate it. You did notice I used the word "mysteriously" disappear in The Osama Triangle.I think the point of a sea burial is to ensure that there is no fixed point for which pilgrimages can be made.
They should have saved his head and impaled it on a pike in Times square.
They(Muslims) have to bury trash 24 hours after the death. They don't want a spot of land to become a shrine to this pigso they threw it to the sharks.
God bless our Navy Seals-job well done!!!!!!!
They should have saved his head and impaled it on a pike in Times square.
From what I'm hearing with the body...
Muslim tradition is that the body must be buried within 24 hours.
They offered it to the Saudi's first, who refused.
They didn't want to bury him in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Iraq/Etc because they felt that wherever he was buried would instantly become a Shrine.
They didn't have time to transport him elsewhere and bury him and still properly have it done in time with Muslim tradition.
As such, they did a burial at sea, giving him no real specific point of burial that can become a Shrine and adhering to the timeline thus trying to continue the good PR.
From what I'm hearing with the body...
Muslim tradition is that the body must be buried within 24 hours.
They offered it to the Saudi's first, who refused.
They didn't want to bury him in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Iraq/Etc because they felt that wherever he was buried would instantly become a Shrine.
They didn't have time to transport him elsewhere and bury him and still properly have it done in time with Muslim tradition.
As such, they did a burial at sea, giving him no real specific point of burial that can become a Shrine and adhering to the timeline thus trying to continue the good PR.
From what I'm hearing with the body...
Muslim tradition is that the body must be buried within 24 hours.
They offered it to the Saudi's first, who refused.
They didn't want to bury him in Afghanistan/Pakistan/Iraq/Etc because they felt that wherever he was buried would instantly become a Shrine.
They didn't have time to transport him elsewhere and bury him and still properly have it done in time with Muslim tradition.
As such, they did a burial at sea, giving him no real specific point of burial that can become a Shrine and adhering to the timeline thus trying to continue the good PR.
This is true, of course. However, as with the Birthers, the release of proof removes doubt in the minds of the neutral observers. It relegates those inevitable conspiracy theories to the domain of the crazies like BmanMcFly and the other Birther loonies. Proof doesn't eliminate conspiracy theorists, it just convinces those whose critical faculties are still intact.
And the PROOF that you have is what ? (other than the word of the Obama administration who stands to gain politically from such an announcement)
No body / No shrine
Not facing Mecca
I'm sure that disposal of his body was well thought out. Interesting that he died on the same day of the year that Hitler committed suicide. What were the odds?
That was my point. Supplying incontrovertible proof of OBL's death (photos, DNA etc) will be vital to avoid conspiracy theories. I thought my post was pretty clearly worded.
He Doesn't deserve it.
Excerpted from “Osama Bin Laden Body Headed for Burial at Sea, Officials Say” reported by ABC News' Jonathan Karl, “The Note” (blog), ABC News, May 02, 2011 1:59 AM
[SIZE="+2"]U[/SIZE].S. officials tell me the last thing they want is for his burial place to become a terrorist shrine.
To avoid that, an informed source tells me, the intention is [to] bury his body at sea -- leaving no definitive location for the final resting place of his body. …
Most of the harcore conspiracy theorists are mentally ill, and there is no amount of proof that can ever cure that. The notion of proof is predicated upon the notion a person is rational, and the conspiracy theorists are so irrational by nature that they will simply incorporate any actual proof as being part of the conspiracy by claiming it is the false proof submitted by those creating the conspiracy.
Me Post 6 - This is true, of course. However, as with the Birthers, the release of proof removes doubt in the minds of the neutral observers. It relegates those inevitable conspiracy theories to the domain of the crazies like BmanMcFly and the other Birther loonies. Proof doesn't eliminate conspiracy theorists, it just convinces those whose critical faculties are still intact.
I think we might want to take that report with a pinch of sea salt. Let's wait for the official statement of what has been done with the body rather than assume an anonymous source speaking to a journalist off the record is the real version.
I don't give a toss what they do with the body, but I do care that it is properly identified and that there can be no conspiracy theories allowed to grow up around whether the event was hoaxed.
Okay, I think I addressed that point a few pages ago when I said:
I'm assuming they will release a picture of his body eventually, even though he may not be recognizable since he was shot in the face. But I think they would also release the DNA results as well.
I am not sure why they blew the compound. It seems there would have been current intelligence there to shed light on AQ activities. 40 minutes is a good amount of time though to do a search.