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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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To: quantim

LOL!


41 posted on 05/02/2011 9:34:31 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Nicholas Berg


42 posted on 05/02/2011 9:34:58 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1 .00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: UniqueViews

some say he’s been dead for years already.


43 posted on 05/02/2011 9:35:15 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: tsowellfan

I think the point is that although everyone agrees he’s dead, the big question is *when* did he actually die?

Blown up in Tora Bora?

Kidney failure in a cave, somewhere?

Croaked in his sleep?

Trampled to death by a herd of camels?

When 0 needs poll pimping distractions most, suddenly OBL is “captured/maimed beyond recognition/killed/tossed overboard”?

Too many convenient alibis and plausible denials.

I spent years comforting a friend who was paranoid beyond belief because of “conspiracy theories” and I’m not a huge fan of them, simply because of that.

They can destroy a person’s life.
[the friend is okay now, though]

However, based on the never-ending subterfuges and Machiavellian machinations of the The Won’s presidency, I find myself intensely skeptical of this whole affair.

The BC BS didn’t help his credibility, either.


44 posted on 05/02/2011 9:35:24 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: mylife
Yeah the "new" Osama tape coming out soon is weird.

Could be though, that a copy of it was gathered when they picked thru the compound.
45 posted on 05/02/2011 9:37:03 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: mewykwistmas

“they keyword is ‘reasonable people.’”

OK — here is one for “reasonable people”.

The UBL compound is 100 yards from a Pakistani military base. 4 helicopters fly in, there is a 40 minute fire-flight and nobody from the military base wonders and goes to find out what’s going on?

We just need to Obama’s word for everything. There are two ways to look at it — how can some people be so gullible, or how can people doubt things, even though Obama supplies no evidence. Bush provided evidence about Saddam’s sons, why couldn’t Obama do the same, that would have put doubts by “reasonable people” to rest?


46 posted on 05/02/2011 9:37:09 PM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: UniqueViews

Obama said he would not kill Osama. So maybe he has been put in a military safe house. Hmmmmm?


47 posted on 05/02/2011 9:37:11 PM PDT by jetson
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To: tsowellfan

“Now if Al Qaeda starts releasing “new” tapes of Bin Laden and start claiming he’s still alive, I say release the evidence then.”

There haven’t been any videotapes of Bin Laden released for years...


48 posted on 05/02/2011 9:38:17 PM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: mylife

Fine, let’s see it. All he has to do is mention specifics about the attack or put up some other evidence that proves it was made ex post facto. It shouldn’t be hard to do at all. Remember, the propaganda gains from such a video would be immeasurable. The silence is becoming deafening.


49 posted on 05/02/2011 9:38:57 PM PDT by notfornothing
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To: outhousepatrol

>>The OJ Jury, wonder what happened to them!<<

I think they all wrote books and retired to Martha’s Vineyard...


50 posted on 05/02/2011 9:39:17 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. /P. J. O'Rourke, 1991)
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To: 1_Rain_Drop

Nick Berg?


51 posted on 05/02/2011 9:39:46 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: FunkyZero

Maybe Bin Laden has been dead for years...


52 posted on 05/02/2011 9:40:07 PM PDT by UniqueViews
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Its a photo copy...9 layers...Get over it


53 posted on 05/02/2011 9:40:12 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Salamander

According to the whitehouse he took a bullet to the head at “exactly 3:55” but they can show me a pic.

They say they have DNA evidence from his sisters brain, but I haven’t seen it.

I have seen what Obama is doing in N Africa.
I don’t trust this guy at all.
He is giving AQ Egypt.


54 posted on 05/02/2011 9:41:10 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1 .00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: Salamander
I believe Bin Laden was killed the way our military says he was killed. I saw the Tweets of someone in that neighborhood when the choppers came in. I have absolutely no doubt Bin Laden was killed exactly how our government said he was killed. Pakistan has acknowledged it had happened. Quite the embarrassment for Pakistan to acknowledge something that's not true.

I still have my doubts about the new BC Obama released.

55 posted on 05/02/2011 9:42:26 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: mylife

You’ve stated the case wonderfully well.

I have turned off the news today because if I hear one more ‘shocking embellishment’/new information dump, I will go stark raving mad.

I can tolerate just about any nasty thing in the world being done to me with reasonable grace.

I cannot, however, abide being lied to.
Not even ‘just a little’.

I guess that’s my personal “quirk”.


56 posted on 05/02/2011 9:42:26 PM PDT by Salamander (Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
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To: over3Owithabrain

It’s an odd wrinkle.


57 posted on 05/02/2011 9:42:54 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1 .00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: UniqueViews

He’s dead, but they dumped him into the ocean because an examination of his body would have indicated how close to death he was, and would have taken all the air out of this Fraud’s party.

Hmm, fortified mansion and no-one knew Bin Laden was there ?


58 posted on 05/02/2011 9:43:36 PM PDT by Beatthedrum
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To: Salamander

Gnight

It sure feels like we are being played.


59 posted on 05/02/2011 9:44:33 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1 .00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: Sienovan
LMAO...that was my interpretation too...but lets get together and have a beer after we do that and talk it over...

I'm sure we can come to an agreement...

60 posted on 05/02/2011 9:45:27 PM PDT by M-cubed
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