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New York: New details have emerged on how US navy SEALs gave Osama bin Laden a ‘blunt’ sea burial to end his myth, after they killed the al Qaeda chief during a raid in Pakistan’s garrison town of Abbottabad. The SEALs planned disposal of bin Laden’s body on the basis on a similar burial they carried out for Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a top al Qaeda leader in East Africa, in 2009.

But, US deputy national security advisor “John Brennan” did call up a former Saudi intelligence official, asking him whether the country was interested in taking the body of Bin Laden as his relatives were there and once he was a citizen of Saudi Arabia. However, there was “no positive response from the other side”, a magazine reported.

“All along, the SEALs had planned to dump bin Laden’s corpse into the sea, a blunt way of ending the bin Laden myth,” the magazine said.

Nabhan’s corpse was flown to a ship in the Indian Ocean and was given proper Muslim rites before being thrown overboard.

In the case of bin Laden’s corpse, flip-wing V-22 Osprey flew the body from a US base in Afghanistan’s Bagram to USS Carl Vinson a thousand-foot-long nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sailing in the Arabian Sea, off the Pakistani coast - in another violation of Islamabad’s airspace.

Once the body reached Carl Vinson, it was washed, wrapped in a white burial shroud, weighted, and then slipped inside a bag.

The process was done “in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices,” Brennan later told reporters in Washington.

The shrouded body was placed “on an open-air elevator, and rode down with it to the lower level, which functions as a hangar for airplanes. From a height of between twenty and twenty-five feet above the waves, they heaved the corpse into the water,” the magazine said.

Earlier Jalalabad where the corpse was brought, a pair of SEALs unloaded the body bag and unzipped it so that man in charge of the mission Vice Adm William H McRaven and the CIA station chief could see bin Laden’s corpse with their own eyes. Photographs were taken of bin Laden’s face and then of his outstretched body.

Bin Laden, 54, was believed to be about six feet four, “but no one had a tape measure to confirm the body’s length. So one SEAL, who was six feet tall, lay beside the corpse - it measured roughly four inches longer than the American,” it said.

Minutes later, McRaven appeared on the teleconference screen in the Situation Room in the White House and confirmed that bin Laden’s body was in the bag. The corpse was sent to Bagram.
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In this case, Brennan briefed some ex-intelligence guys about an issue so they would spin it in the direction the Obama administration wanted it to go and one of the recipients compromised an agent on the ground by talking too much. Now Brennan is in the position of being told classified information that he can use for his television gig. It is really that simple.

First, let’s clear the undergrowth. No one has the right to a security clearance. In particular, there is no right to use a security clearance to enrich yourself and that is exactly what Brennan and James Clapper, in particular, are doing. Allowing retired and former officials to retain their clearance is a courtesy and by any measure, those two guys are not in need of any courtesy from the administration.
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Back to the op-ed, McRaven is showing solidarity with a buddy, with a fellow member of the Resistance. This is theater. If he wants his security clearance revoked, President Trump should accommodate him or anyone else that feels that way. He’s showing that his loyalty to Brennan is higher than his loyalty to either the Navy or Special Operations or the nation and if he feels that way, it is dangerous for him to keep a clearance.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2018/08/16/admiral-bill-mcraven-dares-president-trump-take-security-clearance-trump/

also keep in mind adm.bill McCraven was the one who dumped OBL’s double overboard after he was killed in abbotobad.
Irnoically head of NSA at the time MUslim John Brennan wanted to make sure he didnt piss off any of his muslim buddies and called relaitves of OBL to see if they wanted the body.They didtn which speaks volumces of whether or not the bodya
ACTUALLY WAS OBL OR NOT
If the family didnt want the obdy and they didnt evern bother to measure the exact heighth of the doulbe all they did was:
LET A SAILOR LIE DOWN NEXT TO THE BODY AND ESTIMATE!!
then what was relaly going on who was really dumped over the side?I think I know.