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oedipusaurus_rex ago

I was in the CIC for the USS Enterprise when Bin Laden was buried at sea. He was buried at sea.

rocket_robin_hood ago

So, were people in the military talking about how suspicious the whole situation was. They had Osama Binladens body, why on earth would they dump it at sea as if they were trying to get rid of evidence.

oedipusaurus_rex ago

We dumped it at sea so there wouldn't be a physical location that jihadis couldn't create a new holy site to rally the troops.

rocket_robin_hood ago

Didnt he get killed hiding in a hole in Pakistan? Thats going to be the holy site to rally the troops, the body could have at least had forensics done on it before they disposed of it.

oedipusaurus_rex ago

He was hiding in a compound on the outskirts of Abbottabad. It was within 10 blocks of one of Pakistan's largest military bases and we illegally invaded Pakistan to carry out the raid. The only reason this didn't cause serious diplomatic problems for us is that we caught Pakistan (a country that was claiming to support us) hiding the person they were supposed to be helping us find.

It wasn't a hole. It was a safehouse. If they want to make a holy site out of it, they're going to have to do so in a country that doesn't publicly support them (kinda like the US ironically) 10 blocks away from one of the largest military presences in that country.