Sola_Fide
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http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/02/why-was-bin-laden-buried-at-sea-so-quickly/
Why? I mean really....why?
Why? I mean really....why?
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/02/why-was-bin-laden-buried-at-sea-so-quickly/
Why? I mean really....why?
Why does the dog wag its tail?
Because the dog is smarter than the tail.
If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog.
Because there was no bin Laden to bury at sea. And that is, of course, a problem of sorts. This official story is even more cheese ball-ish than the 9-11 fairytale.
I will say one thing: somebody must be feeling a bit desperate to do this. Something must not be going quite the way they want. Why risk exposure, blowback, or other unintended consequences unless you were desperate?
After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, the official said. Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult, the official said. So the U.S. decided to bury him at sea.
But it strikes me that if you wanted to make your own words more look suspiciously incredible, you would be hard-pressed to top the recent actions of the Obama administration.
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The whole point of engaging in a helicopter raid rather than simply dropping a daisy cutter was to obtain the body. As one British journalist noted: "The decision to carry out a helicopter assault was incredibly risky but the US Navy SEALS and the CIA pulled it off. The huge advantage is that it means that bin Laden’s body was recovered – any speculation that he remains alive is likely to be shortlived."
Unless, of course, the body is immediately thrown into the sea.... But whether the most recent reports of bin Laden's death is real or not, they should at least serve as an excuse to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq before Libya heats up in response to Qaddafi's likely efforts at retaliation following the reported death of his youngest son. [...]
I'm not saying they needed to stick bin Laden's head on a pike at the White House, but providing independent confirmation from a third party such as the Saudi ambassador or one of his family members would have been significantly more convincing than a press release about a body dumped in the ocean.
Okay I can buy that we would honor muslim tradition to avoid blowback or whatever. However, if I am to buy that the tradition we were honoring was burying the body within 24 hours, wouldn't that mean we were supposed to do it a week ago when we "actually" killed him. This story is full of more holes than a block of swiss cheese.