Officials within the White House are said to be debating the prospect of releasing photographs of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, though the corpse itself will remain unreleased as it was already hurled into the sea.
“There’s no doubt it’s him,” one official insisted, and others apparently argued that the pictures would allow the public to “appreciate” the killing of the long time al-Qaeda leaders. Others say the pictures are too gruesome, however.
Still, former CIA official Michael Scheuer expressed confidence that the photos would eventually be released, saying that the number of conspiracy theories about bin Laden’s death would eventually force such a move.
Officials say that photographic as well as DNA evidence proved that the body in question was indeed Osama bin Laden, who was reported killed in a pre-dawn raid on Sunday morning. The death was announced on Sunday night.
There is already considerable controversy and sceptism about the way Bin Laden was killed and the way his body was disposed off. There are already too many unanswered questions and excuses that do not add up one inch. It's not the first time that we have been taken for a ride. Anyway a dead Bin Laden may well be, if not more dangerous than a live one.
If they think they've seen conspiracy theories, they'll be seeing one that'll make the others look like polite disagreements with accepted fact. The photos may or may not convince people it's bin Laden, but if they don't release them they can expect nothing but criticism for the burial at sea. They have to want it to remain a question in everybody's mind to do something like that. More head games from the powers that be. More "reasons" for doing something that'll benefit the rich.
Obama's own words
"After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-b…
He was executed after being captured alive, in other words.
I have a problem swallowing our government's Orwellian pronouncements. Here is one I am wrestling with now: the media faithfully reports that bin Laden was identified by a DNA match. However, not one reporter has asked, just how did the government come into possession of bin Laden's DNA in the first place. He has been "on the run" for over 10 years. So, when and how did the feds get his DNA to match it against the alleged corpse they dumped into the sea? After you ask that question, a lot more naturally follow. But, let's start with that!
This story has too many holes in it to be taken at face value; it smells of a distraction or a cover-up or both.
The most important 'kill' of the past decade and all the physical evidence disappears within a matter of hours? No 'unnamed sources' with eyewitness accounts, no photos, no nothing- only the word of a government that has a long and distinguished track record of lying to the American public.
Be that as it may- whether the 'kill' actually took place or not- my focus is on the mysterious 'burial at sea'. It's not in keeping with Islamic law, no matter how many times the White House says it is, as OBL did not die at sea a sea burial is automatically ruled out. Even if he was alive on board the USS Carl Vinson and died on board at sea…. who are the Muslim crewmembers who prepared his body? We don't just wrap 'em and toss 'em- we have very specific and exacting procedures for preparing the dead for burial- who on board was knowledgable enough about this to perform the proper procedure?
Too many questions, and not nearly enough answers that match each other.