Posted on 03/06/2012 4:59:54 AM PST by MNDude
Edited on 03/06/2012 5:11:20 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The body of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was not buried at sea, according to leaked emails of intelligence firm Stratfor, as revealed by WikiLeaks.
Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, believes the body was “bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA plane” and then “onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda [Maryland],” an email says.
The official version is that the body of Al-Qaeda’s top man, who was killed by a US raid in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, was buried at an undisclosed location at sea in a proper Muslim ceremony.
"If body dumped at sea, which I doubt, the touch is very Adolph Eichman like. The Tribe did the same thing with the Nazi's ashes," Burton commented in another email. Eichman was one of the masterminds of the Holocaust by Nazi Germany. He was captured by Mossad agents in Argentina and, tried in Israel, found guilty and executed in 1962. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea over the Mediterranean.
"Eichmann was seen alive for many months on trial before being sentenced to death and executed. No one wanted a monument to him so they cremated him. But i dont know anyone who claimed he wasnt eicjhman [sic]. No comparison with suddenly burying him at sea without any chance to view him which i doubt happened [sic]," Stratfor CEO George Friedman replied.
"The US Govt needs to make body pics available like the MX's do, with OBL's pants pulled down, to shout down the lunatics like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck," Burton says in another message.
In another missive Burton says Osama’s body “is a crime scene and I don’t see the FBI nor DOJ letting that happen.”
WikiLeaks began publishing Stratfor emails in late February. The archive was obtained by the hacker group Anonymous, which successfully attacked one of the firm’s servers. More than 5 million emails were apparently stolen.
Stratfor is a US-based intelligence firm called the “shadow CIA” by some media. Among its clients are several US agencies and many big companies. The company relies on paid tips from informants placed in high circles of business, government and security all around the world.
You may indeed be correct, and what’s offered here is nothing more than the purported musings of Fred Burton and Stratfor. I smell bait for another “Fluke” job.
That won’t stop the conspiracy nuts.
If radical Muslims are going nuts over the burning of a Koran and killing US soldiers as a result, won’t the “desecration” of OBLs body stir up a firestorm? Didn’t we go to great lengths to describe how OBL was given a proper Muslim funeral so as to placate Muslims and show them how sensitive we were to their religion? Why I’m sure the 9-11 hijackers passed out bibles and rosaries to passengers and led the singing of Kubaya before slamming the planes into the Trade Center, Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
This appears to be utter conjecture, attributed to a single Stratfor principal, without any evident basis in fact. It raises more questions about the intentionality of those who disseminated such unsourced speculation than anything else.
Fake, IIRC. They put Obama’s face on some dead guy from the ME.
What a lie. Binny died in 2004.
Well, that was fast. Drudge had it up on his site, and immediately pulled it. Smelled the bait too, did you Drudge?
Of course he is, silly!
We ALL saw the photos of his bullet-riddled body.
Oh.
Wait.
Never mind.
It’s gotta be easy to be Drudge. He can steal someone else’s scoop while they are checking out the sources. If it’s wrong, they can blame it on the source like “FoxNews believed Newt Gingrich is from Mars”
It would be nice if there were someone I could trust about anything nowadays, but it seems everything is lies and trickery.
OK... Thank you for the link. It’s good to know that my original source was duped also. It’s going to be increasingly hard to verify the truth with technology and a regime bent on using whatever means to achieve their desired end.
I did think your example was pretty good though... it was the OTHER one that ended up in all the MSM papers (which is quite funny). I do wish we could find out the truth, somedsy at least, on Osama’s demise...
Why?
Why would they bring him here? For what purpose? He’s dead, and keeping the body would be a liability, IMO.
Even the “leaked” emails fail to provide guidance on that point.
What makes you so sure there ever really was a “Bin Laden”? Who fed you that information?
Some guy named Burton “doubts.” This is just silly.
I personally don’t care where bin Laden’s body went, or his soul for that matter. But this is spurious story with little substance, just one guy with questions.
This was a headline on Drudge for a short time. Even he took it down fairly quickly.
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