Posted on 11/21/2012 9:25:26 PM PST by Steelfish
Internal Military Emails Reveal Details On bin Laden's Burial November 21, 2012
WASHINGTON – Internal emails among senior U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Usama 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 Qaeda 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 Abbottabad, Pakistan. One email sent on May 2 by a senior Navy officer briefly describes how bin Laden's body was washed, wrapped in a white sheet, and then placed in a weighted bag.
According to another message, only a small group of the ship's leadership was informed of the burial.
"Traditional procedures for Islamic burial was followed," the May 2 email from Rear Adm. Charles Gaouette reads. "The deceased's body was washed (ablution) then placed in a white sheet. The body was placed in a weighted bag. A military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a native speaker. After the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, whereupon the deceased's body slid into the sea."
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Any idea how many soliders(sic) serve aboard a CVN?
One (In The Brig)
This was sooooooo wrong.
burial at sea? This was a traditional hide everything from the American public tradition and claim victory
To show any respect to this low life killer of innocent Americans is an outrage. In the past, enemies who were killed on the field of battle were treated with less respect than this monster. They were dragged and thrown into mass graves in the process of cleaning up the battlefield. It wasn’t done out of disrespect, but a matter of necessity. But those men deserved more respect than OBL. When will we learn. OBL should have been tossed into the sea with the day’s garbage, and the fact should have been publicized as such. Were the Japanese dead on Saipan interred in a Shinto ceremony, no. We did not engage in such nonsense until this present shallow times.
The ‘inappropriate judgement’ must have been in allowing the supposed body of Bin Laden, if it really was, a Muslim ritual burial.
He should have been lashed neath an F-16 and sent splat up the side of the Hajj. More fitting to the manner in which he dispatched 3000 Americans that day.
What, no traditional sodomy, dragging through the streets or decapitation?
I would have cut off his head & put it atop the Empire State Bldg. Give them a taste of their own medicine.
From the Marine’s first incursion onto the “Shores of Tripoli”, to General Patton’s WWII, “traditional Islamic procedures” for the US military included pig’s blood. Hopefully this will some day be restored.
This is a snow job to justify that, just like Petreus' mistress (as if that is unusual in D.C. circles). The alleged classified material on her HDD could have been put there by most any hacker worth a check.
Both of these people either said they did not issue orders to stop a rescue operation or had done so, countermanding orders from higher up the food chain. Now they both are being drawn and quartered in the press to pay for their sins.
The coup continues, Chicago style.
Badly worded, let's try that again:
Both of these people either said they did not issue orders to stop a rescue operation or had shown intent to issue orders for a rescue operation, countermanding orders from higher up the food chain. Now they both are being drawn and quartered in the press to pay for their sins.
That makes more sense.
Nice try, but everybody knows that the SEALs sewed him into a rancid pigskin and threw him out of the helicopter after chumming the water for sharks.
The coup continues, Chicago style.
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Bingo!
The reason nobody on the Carl Vinson saw a ceremony is because they took Osama out of a freezer and gave him a heliocopter ride halfway to the Carl Vinson. Bin Ladin likely got the heave ho at about 2,000 ft out the side gunner’s door. Hasta La Vista Baby!!!
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