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Despite DNA evidence, some doubt bin Laden really dead
Seattle Times ^ | May 2, 2011 | Matea Gold, Eryn Brown and David S. Cloud

Posted on 05/02/2011 8:57:48 PM PDT by UniqueViews

Within hours of the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound, the CIA had used 21st technology to get "a virtually 100 percent DNA match" on the dead man. But something out of another century may come back to haunt the United States: the al-Qaida leader's burial at sea.

Conspiracy theorists on the left and right were quick to insist bin Laden was either still alive or had been dead for years, pouncing on the government's decision to slide the body of the world's most wanted man off a board into the Arabian Sea.

The burial at sea largely followed widely accepted interpretations of Islamic law taking care not to anger the mainstream Muslim community, said Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University in North Carolina.

With only a small group of witnesses, a military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a "native speaker," the official said.

The Islamic tradition of a quick burial was the subject of intense debate in Iraq in 2003 when U.S. forces embalmed the bodies of Saddam Hussein's two sons after they were killed in a firefight. Their bodies later were shown to media.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: binladen; binladendead; burial; cindysheehan; conspiracytheory; deather; deathers; islamicburial; islamiclaw; obama; osama; wot
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Why would the "mainstream Muslim community" be "angered" over how a terrorist leader is buried, unless they sympathized with him?!

Isn't this going a little too far to bury a terrorist? I wonder what the "religious remarks" said, that Bin Laden was a great man?

1 posted on 05/02/2011 8:57:50 PM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: UniqueViews

No body, no Bin Laden dead.


2 posted on 05/02/2011 8:59:25 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: UniqueViews

They did not bury him at sea. The body is right next to that body part of John Dillinger and Kennedy’s brain.


3 posted on 05/02/2011 9:03:51 PM PDT by microgood
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Compare how Bush handled when we killed Saddam Hussein’s two sons in a raid:

“in Iraq in 2003 when U.S. forces embalmed the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s two sons after they were killed in a firefight. Their bodies later were shown to media.”

Why didn’t Obama do the same thing — allow the UK and other countries to take their own DNA sample from the body and do their own DNA analysis and show the dead body to the media?


4 posted on 05/02/2011 9:05:06 PM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: UniqueViews

Because no one dare question The One. It’s beneath him to have to prove anything. Heck, supposedly he refused to release a perfectly legit BC for years just because.


5 posted on 05/02/2011 9:07:53 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Despite DNA evidence, some doubt bin Laden really dead I still doubt Oswald killed JFK. Of course there was nothing as definitive as DNA back in the day.
6 posted on 05/02/2011 9:08:39 PM PDT by doc1019 (Palin/Bachmann, unbeatable.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Gentlemen!

START YOR CONSPIRICy’s


7 posted on 05/02/2011 9:09:36 PM PDT by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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OH STOP....GET A LIFE, IF YOU NEED A CHUNK OF HIS BODY TO prove to you that he is dead...O.K. I guess, but you are unrealistic....by the way, Tojo and Hitler are also dead...I’m not certain about Stalin


8 posted on 05/02/2011 9:11:09 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: UniqueViews

Despite DNA evidence, some doubt bin Laden really dead

Well yeah. after all the story of his death come from “our” Government. Maybe we should TRUST BUT VERIFY.


9 posted on 05/02/2011 9:11:17 PM PDT by Tupelo
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To: UniqueViews

They should have fed his body to the hogs.


10 posted on 05/02/2011 9:11:30 PM PDT by Vietnam Vet From New Mexico (Pray For Our Troops)
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To: UniqueViews

Great, now the “deathers”...


11 posted on 05/02/2011 9:11:57 PM PDT by neodad (Don't Tap, Just Drill!)
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To: UniqueViews

What DNA evidence? Them saying they have DNA evidence?

What would DNA evidence say to a layman?


12 posted on 05/02/2011 9:12:12 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1 .00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: kennyboy509

Men did not land on Mars! Oh wait that hasn’t happened yet so I gotta wait.
Until then...Men did not land on the moon. ;)

( they actually did but I’m jst positing my fave conspiracy— I gotta add this disclaimer for those that don’t get the point. sigh.)


13 posted on 05/02/2011 9:13:37 PM PDT by Redcitizen (In case of economic breakdown, make sure you have a case of Snickers candy bars.)
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To: UniqueViews

The American people and the world deserve to see photographic evidence.


14 posted on 05/02/2011 9:14:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (There have not been 50 million babies murdered in America; there has been 1 murder, 50 million times)
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To: UniqueViews

If the Department of the Navy says he is dead, He is dead.


15 posted on 05/02/2011 9:14:59 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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“Why didn’t Obama do the same thing — allow the UK and other countries to take their own DNA sample from the body and do their own DNA analysis and show the dead body to the media?”

I was going to give a longer explanation, but this one is short and explains it all: obama is a narcissist.

16 posted on 05/02/2011 9:15:10 PM PDT by piytar (The Four Horsemen: War, Pestilence, Famine, and Bob. Be not proud, Bob! (ht to Gen.Blather))
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To: UniqueViews

bin-laden is currently shark food, but because of the arrogant jerk in the white house, millions of conspiracists have been created. Show the da.. fotos you conceited nitwit, and get it over with.


17 posted on 05/02/2011 9:15:40 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long-term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: mylife

Because everyone alive can look at comparative DNA sequences and be totally sure it’s him.

[why? can’t ~you~?]

/s

This is a waking nightmare.


18 posted on 05/02/2011 9:16:06 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Dive in the Arabian sea to find him. Trump can finance your adventure.

Notice that no one rally cares what kooks think, they keyword is ‘reasonable people.’


19 posted on 05/02/2011 9:16:45 PM PDT by mewykwistmas (She does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her)
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To: UniqueViews

What is “virtually 100 percent”? Is that sort of like almost certain?

Me and The Donald want to see the long form of his death certificate.


20 posted on 05/02/2011 9:17:05 PM PDT by Random Access
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