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Internal emails offer
details on bin Laden burial
Associated Press, by Richard Lardner
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Posted By:ragu, 11/21/2012 8:37:14 PM
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| Washington - Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden´s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony.The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader´s death. The emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department.Bin Laden was killed on May 1, 2011, by a Navy SEAL team that assaulted his compound in
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
quark, 11/21/2012 8:46:38 PM (No. 9028491)
I don´t know, did it really happen? We may never know.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1, 11/21/2012 9:13:03 PM (No. 9028514)
Hopefully he was taken to the fan tail and dumped like all the garbage that is taken to the fan tail for disposal
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EnsignO´Toole, 11/21/2012 10:11:39 PM (No. 9028593)
Amen #2! If George W. Bush were president, I believe we would have no doubt that it really was Osama bin Laden. Remember when the evil brothers Ouday and Qusay in Iraq were killed? We had no doubt and neither did the Iraqi people that their tormentors were dead.
With our Fraud-in-Chief, I suspect that this is may be a fake kill to make him look heroic. It´s a ha, ha - "I got bin Laden and Bush didn´t." Unfortunately we´ll never know. Common sense would have required that there be no doubt about who was killed. We could honor the Islamic burial after all forensics were done, or we could have given the body back to his family. Why shroud the whole episode in mystery so unnecessarily unless you have something to hide?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HistoryBuff, 11/21/2012 10:11:49 PM (No. 9028594)
He would have been committed off elevator 3.
Nothing in this story that anyone who ever witnessed a commitment at sea from an aircraft carrier would not have known.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 11/21/2012 11:37:27 PM (No. 9028701)
Should have been attached to a catapult and launched out to sea. Good riddance to a muzzie POS. He is fish poop.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 11/21/2012 11:44:31 PM (No. 9028710)
Where is the proof to American citizens ?
He received far better treatment than Daniel Pearl or those that were killed on 9/11.
If he was washed, it might have been the first time in a long time. Too bad he wasn´t baptisted and wrapped in bacon.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Coach, 11/21/2012 11:47:03 PM (No. 9028712)
Dump all trash aft Sponson-53
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
uno_thatguy, 11/22/2012 2:54:54 AM (No. 9028797)
Supposedly there was a DNA test done within minutes of the kill. Minutes??? The test takes a minimum of 3 to 4 days. Most reports I´ve read say 5 to 7 days is normal. Who ever was buried was identified within minutes and dumped long before a test could have been completed.
Ya, raaaaaaight!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Judith, 11/22/2012 7:13:54 AM (No. 9028913)
I find it interesting that, according to a SEAL on that detail, they were ordered by obama to CAPTURE bin laden, not to kill him. First chance they had, according to this SEAL, they killed him, depriving obama the chance for his planned theater of the absurd.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 11/22/2012 7:16:36 AM (No. 9028916)
Wonder who gave the command to make sure he was buried in the Muslim tradition? I´m sure he is of the same faith as those who were so concerned about the nearly 3000 believers buried in the rubble of the WTC.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
franq, 11/22/2012 7:20:31 AM (No. 9028922)
I had never even heard of this Muslim burial "tradition" until the OBL farce. Weren´t most of them desert wanderers? What´s up with that?
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Internal emails offer
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Associated Press, by Richard Lardner
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Washington - Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden´s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony.The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader´s death. The emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department.Bin Laden was killed on May 1, 2011, by a Navy SEAL team that assaulted his compound in
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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