Bin Laden Given Religious Funeral Prior to Sea Burial

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Usama bin Laden was given a religious funeral prior to his burial at sea, senior military officials told Fox News.

Religious rites were conducted on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier at about 1:10 a.m. Monday in the Persian Gulf.

In accordance with Islamic practice, bin Laden was washed and wrapped in a white sheet before buried at sea at 2 a.m. local time, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials said.

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Senior administration officials said the DNA testing alone offered near 100 percent certainty that bin Laden was among those shot dead. Photo analysis by the CIA, confirmation by a woman believed to be bin Laden's wife on site, and matching physical features like bin Laden's height all helped confirmed the identification.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/02/bin-laden-given-religious-funeral-prior-sea-burial/

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Religious rites were conducted on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier at about 1:10 a.m. Monday in the Persian Gulf.

In accordance with Islamic practice, bin Laden was washed and wrapped in a white sheet before buried at sea at 2 a.m. local time, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials said.

Stupid!

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Stupid!

Why is that stupid?

It isn't enough to win, we must be dicks about it too?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Stupid!

What do you think should have happened? Should they have stuffed him into the cadaver of a dead hog? Or pizzed into his skull? Unlike OBL, we ain't savages.

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Why is that stupid?

It isn't enough to win, we must be dicks about it too?

Bury him at see in a humane manner sure but within Islamic practice is stupid. Islam should be pissed off.

Edited May 2, 2011 by _Simpson_

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What do you think should have happened? Should they have stuffed him into the cadaver of a dead hog? Or pizzed into his skull? Unlike OBL, we ain't savages.

Yeah because thats what my normal reaction to these sort of things tends to be

Put him in a plain pine box and dump him overboard, plain and simple.

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Bury him at see in a humane manner sure but within Islamic practice is stupid.

Why is it stupid to bury him using his own religious tradition?

Islam should be pissed off.

Who?

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Why on earth does it or should it matter how the body was buried?

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Why is it stupid to bury him using his own religious tradition?

Because its a waste of time and money. He is a animal and providing a pine box alone is far more than he deserves.

Who?

Bona fide grade A Muslims.

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I doubt it cost much time or money

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Why on earth does it or should it matter how the body was buried?

Because religious people (most people on this planet) care about such things.

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Because religious people (most people on this planet) care about such things.

There's nothing to debate here

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Weren't there some soldiers that got in trouble a while back because they took some "inappropriate" pictures with the dead bodies of some terrorists that they had captured? Now they caught THE man, and they bury him at seal, so nicely. Well if that's what they thought would suit best, not much to do now!

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Why on earth does it or should it matter how the body was buried?

Because he is a animal and not worth the money spent on the ceremony.

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Because its a waste of time and money. He is a animal and providing a pine box alone is far more than he deserves.

You know, we have Nazi soldiers buried at Fort Leavenworth. Why was a tradition-based burial ok for Nazis but not ok for Usama?

There's nothing to debate here

There might be if I knew what your position was.