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You know what. The fact that they actually gave him the swift burial requested by his religion was a good move and one Obama should have mentioned in his statement, as it sends a message to the Islamic world that our quarrel is not with you.
That said, I'm guessing burial at see means they threw him out of a plane on the way home.
I look forward to the inevitable movie version.
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yea there seems to be something to that faldor:
Ruth Gledhill, the Times' religion correspondent, has written a piece on the burial at sea that's worth a read if you can negotiate the paywall.
She points out that OBL was deposited in the sea to stop his grave becoming a shrine.
As regards the controversy we mentioned earlier about whether or not such a burial is permitted under Islamic law, she quotes a US blogger:
According to Carina Adly MacKenzie, the sea burial adheres to Islamic tradition.
"There is a stipulation that if it is likely that an enemy may try to dig up the grave or destroy the gravesite, burial at sea — while not ideal — is allowed."
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There are some dodgy photoshops doing the rounds of Osama this morning. They should release a set of photos when they have the time, to quell the BS.
And oh yeah, this is a picture of a man shot in the face so NSFW and beware
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James Lofton wrote:The U.S., Russia, China, and the EU need to be on high alert as killing him may be a signal for sleeper cells to launch some sort of attack.
The 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed apparently told our interrogators that there was a plan in place for immediate retaliation if we ever killed Bin Laden.
As someone else said they may not have the organisation or infastructure anymore to retaliate as they'd once wanted. Having said that I saw someone on the news this morning claim AQ is much stronger now than it ever was 10 years ago so who knows.
The US have supposedly been monitering this villa since last summer. You would hope if this has been planned for nearly a year then the potential aftermath and revenge attempts have also been planned for as best as possible.
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My guess is they wouldn't have buried him at sea but probably have taken the body back with them. It's just easier to tell everyone that they did.
Same deal if they had actually managed to take him alive there would be no way they would tell people that. Take him back torture him to get what info they can then when they're done kill him. That's what I'd do if I was running the show.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011 … en-attack/
By Shefali Anand
A man in Abbottabad, the town where Osama bin Laden was killed by the U.S. on Monday, inadvertently live-tweeted the attack as it started.
The man, who uses the Twitter handle “ReallyVirtual”, identifies himself as Sohaib Athar, “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops.”
Around 11 hours ago, according to the Twitter timeline, Mr. Athar first tweeted about a helicopter hovering above him at 1 a.m., saying it was a “rare event” for Abbottabad. That would have been at about 3.30 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday.
Still, Mr. Athar seems to have thought of it as a mere annoyance, as his next tweet was “Go away helicopter – before I take out my giant swatter :-/”
Within minutes, he tweeted: “A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S”.
After a while when the sound of the helicopter stopped following a blast, Mr. Athar tweeted “seems like my giant swatter worked !”
That was followed by a Twitter discussion about what had happened. He wrote to “@m0hcin the few people online at this time of the night are saying one of the copters was not Pakistani…”
Mr. Athar noted that “Since taliban (probably) don’t have helicpoters, and since they’re saying it was not ‘ours’, so must be a complicated situation#abbottabad”
Over the next two hours, Mr. Athar exchanged messages with a few other Twitter users about what had happened, learning that there was a helicopter crash. They wondered whether it was an attack or an accident.
“And now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/” tweeted Mr. Athar. He retweeted “ibi2010 Ibrar Ali , who said: 1 dead and 1 injured in Abbottabad for heli crashed.”
Mr, Athar seems to have gone offline for a few hours, resurfacing this morning to tweet: “interesting rumors in the otherwise uneventful Abbottabad air today.” Shortly thereafter, Mr. Athar figured out what had happened.
He retweeted a tweet from Munzir Naqvi: “I think the helicopter crash in Abbottabad, Pakistan and the President Obama breaking news address are connected.”
Mr. Athar was clearly unhappy.
“I guess Abbottabad is going to get as crowded as the Lahore that I left behind for some peace and quiet. *sigh*”
Shortly thereafter, another Twitter user confirmed the news. Mr. Athar tweeted “RT @ISuckBigTime: Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: ISI has confirmed it << Uh oh, there goes the neighborhood :-/””
As the Twitter world discovered Mr. Athar’s live tweets from last night, thousands of followers have added him in the last few hours.
Two hours ago, he wrote: “Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.”
Mr. Athar has apparently also been bombarded by email and other requests. “For the people who are trying to email me to reach me, I simply can’t filter out the notifications from the emails :-( “ he wrote.
Mr. Athar opened his Twitter account in May 2007, and had only around 750 followers as of April 30, according to Web site twittercounter.com. He now has around 13,000 and counting.
Follow Ms. Anand @shefalianand.
Find complete coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden from The Wall Street Journal.
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Re: Bin Laden dead
i heard he was I.D.'d by dna compared to his dead sister who used to live in the US and who's brain is still in america/washington..
