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Official: Bin Laden buried at sea

Andalublue said:
Jeez, who'da thunk? I actually agree with you.
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ROTFLOL... and 30-years ago I agreed with you probably most of the time. You're a little late in the learning curve... but you're learning ;)

If it were the Spanish that had done this, I think they'd have awarded the Navy Seals both of Osama's ears and instead of a tail... Osama's beard. Olé!

Infinite Chaos said:
I think the point of a sea burial is to ensure that there is no fixed point for which pilgrimages can be made.
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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.

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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!!!!!!!
 
rhinefire said:
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!!!!!!!
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There are some very happy little fish and crabs munching on UBL's carcass this morning. It's a great day!!
 
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.
 
The Preacher said:
They should have saved his head and impaled it on a pike in Times square.
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I said something like that, but it really as a joke. No, that would incite flag burning and Death to America. The best thing happened to rob them of any excuse to make a deal out of it.
 
Zyphlin said:
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.
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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?
 
Zyphlin said:
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.
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How about a permanent tomb at Gitmo? :mrgreen:
 
Zyphlin said:
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.
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He Doesn't deserve it.
 
Andalublue said:
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.
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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)
 
Scanner said:
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)
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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.
 
MaggieD said:
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?
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1 in 30.....................
 
Andalublue said:
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.
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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.
 
cpgrad08 said:
He Doesn't deserve it.
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And a host of our executed criminals should also meet a dumpster, not a grave. 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.
 
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. …
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Osama bin Laden's only memorial will be the voids in the lives of his victims' families.
 
Gardener said:
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.
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Okay, I think I addressed that point a few pages ago when I said:
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.
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Andalublue said:
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.
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Trump is demanding to see the long form Death Certificate...
 
"Buried at sea" is the polite way of saying "we dumped him overboard the second we confirmed the DNA evidence."
 
I hope they send a fish wrapped Bin Ladin's clothing to the 'new' Al Qaeda leaders...

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Luca Brasi and Bin Ladin both now sleep with the fishes...
 
Your Star 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.
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Anybody hear where they got the DNA sample for reference?

NOTa conspiracy theory, just pointing wjere one might pop up. He did have health problems, so his DNA probably was available.
 
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shintao said:
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.
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dont be so sure they didnt..
though there was reporting of no internet etc. at the residence, there were also reports of computers broken apart with the harddrives removed.
 
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