Sea burial of Osama Bin Laden and off topic chit-chat

[Coati]

Reason for a sea grave is definitely what Erwin stated, to avoid creating a pilgrimage.

[aviodromefriend]

Another reason why they have given him a burial at sea is the fact that this way his grave cannot become a site of pilgrimage.

For sure the site where they got him will now become the pilgrimage site for his believers. Unless parts of his body will wash ashore anywhere in the world. If they want to be really sure nothing would remain, they should have donated him to science. At least I hope some photos of the dead body will be released as a definite proof of his death, so nobody will turn up at a later stage claiming he is still alive.

[evhest]

.... Unless parts of his body will wash ashore anywhere in the world. If they want to be really sure nothing would remain, they should have donated him to science. At least I hope some photos of the dead body will be released as a definite proof of his death, so nobody will turn up at a later stage claiming he is still alive.....

Parts of his body wash ashore.... are you actually serious?

Also, if you read the news, you would know that DNA samples have been taken. The results of tests are expected within days

[aviodromefriend]

Parts of his body wash ashore.... are you actually serious?

Don't you know after how long time how far away from where bodies have been buried in the sea remains have been landed?

[evhest]

No, so please tell me.

[Thermal]

I feel a new movie coming up.....

[Gerard]

I feel a new movie coming up.....

Titel: "Apache down"?

[evhest]

...starring Steven Seagal as Osama Bin Laden....

[Thermal]

Titel: "Apache down"?

No Apaches involved. Just 4 Black Hawks from the 160th SOAR (who were also involved in Mogadishu) . According to this picture it should be "Black Hawk Down II" or "Pave Hawk Down" but that would not be original

No, so please tell me.

Aviadromefriend is right; in WW2 RAF and USAAF crews would wash up to Dutch beaches miles and miles away from their crash location and sometimes months after they had crashed.

Furthermore, Islamic rules state that when a body can not be burried on land and should be burried at sea (muslims must be burreid within 1 day) the body should be put between 2 wooden planks to enable it to float better and thus drift to land where it then can still be burried by the people who find the body (no joke). The US says they have burried him at sea according to Islamic rules.
So he'll probably float for some time.

However with the sharks (tigershark, great white shark etc) in the Arabian Sea it seems unlikely his body will ever make it to shore.

[ehusmann]

Aviadromefriend is right; in WW2 RAF and USAAF crews would wash up to Dutch beaches miles and miles away from their crash location and sometimes months after they had crashed.

But that is something else. In a normal burrial at sea the body will have some weights attached to it, so the body sinks to the bottom and will not stay afloat. If that is the case now, given what you write about muslim demands, I don´t know of course.

Erwin

[S&B extra]

I feel a book coming: Hunting for OBL or Killing Osama by Mark Bowden

[wonju666]

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-d ... ed-in.html
It seems American SOF used some sort of stealth helo for this operation.

[wild weasel]

However with the sharks (tigershark, great white shark etc) in the Arabian Sea it seems unlikely his body will ever make it to shore.

Great whites can be found more south, in the colder waters, but a tigershark will do the job for sure, they are not called the carbage bins of the ocean for fun.......