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Official: Bin Laden buried at sea
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WASHINGTON – A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea.

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.

The official, who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters, did not immediately say where that occurred.

greeney2 wrote:No code thats not what it is. I have to say the burial at sea was genius becasue it disallows any place for pilgramage and any way to pay homage to him, or meet at his burial site for inspiration, etc.

greeney2 wrote:In doing a common Islamic burial, he was denied the burial of a martyr.

DIss0n80r wrote:They need to show pics. They need as much documentation as they can muster or else they may as well had not killed him at all.

babybuddah wrote:

Osama Bin Laden - Dead.jpg