Oh, well fair enough then. Not the conspiracy of the century even if it is true. They might have just found his dead body or proof of his death. Same thing to me.

Exactly Rich Dog !!

hmm..makes you think about the distances they would need to travel from Pakistan to the base in Afganistan and than to the sea. is that even possible in the 3-6 hours?

Plus DNA testing. I thought it takes more than 24hours. Maybe a DNA expert here could help.

Osama - worlds most wanted terrorist killed and buried at sea.
Sadam Hussein - tyrant, murderer, also wanted by the most influential countries in the world, publicly executed and ditched in a hole.
They had Sadam that's why they proved to the world evidence of his execution and allowed close up recording.
Now, why two criminals of almost same level, were treated differently? Both of them were claiming to be moslems, why one gets treated (his remains at least) according to islam tradition and the other doesn't?
And, as far as I know, it is not in islamic tradition to bury the dead at sea.

I think most reports have said that the DNA test results will be known in a few days' time.

I think that it takes at least 3 days.

This point has already been debated earlier in the thread.

Saddam was dealt with by the Iraqi interim government.
Osama by the US.

Consequently they were treated differently.

1 to 2 hours in a helicopter to the base in Afganistan then 30 minutes in a military jet to the aircraft carrier.

And thrown (buried) at sea according to islamic tradition by non-moslems? It makes you think, no?

Or about 8 minutes in CSI Las Vegas. Rather a moot point now that the sharks have been fed.

US actions in the so called war on terror rarely make much sense. Remember how they hanged Saddam in the middle of the night, after a secret trial by the Iraqis.. which made no sense considering the US was in control of the country. And then one of the executioners taunted Saddam and someone shot a video on a cellphone and it circulated on the web...

In this case, since they were operating inside another sovereign territory, it seemed logical that they would hand over the body to Pakistan to deal with.

Oh well... someday Wikileaks will reveal all.

I have just read a report which states that Obama refused to bomb the 'lair' back in March, for fear of destroying DNA evidence that would prove irrefutably that OBL was dead.

They'll certainly "reveal" something...

"by non-moslems" - where did you get this information?

I quote "He was buried at sea after a Muslim funeral on board an aircraft carrier in the north Arabian Sea" Pentagon officials said.

DNA tests in 2 to 4 hours; see
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ac101891k

Any source for this? It certainly not anywhere close to what I've seen or read.

According to CNN, marines went into the room where he was and after recognizing facially that he was Osama, they killed him.

http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2011...ieve-this.html

That's a far way from dragging him out and shooting him in the head after all the other shooting was over. No mention of whether he had a gun in his hands, etc.