Will OBL's body be buried in Saudi Arabia to create a martyr?

[99th_Monkey]

or will OBL's body be cremated at sea?

this is a huge question hanging in the airwaves ...
on Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

[steve2470]

1. already buried at sea according to CNN nt

[gauguin57]

2. He was buried at sea, per Islamic law, at 2 a.m. eastern time.

... so Tweets Jake Tapper.

[Hannah Bell]

4. muslims don't bury people at sea, so i'm not sure what the "per islamic law" is about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_funeral

[Abq_Sarah]

7. Actually...

It is permissible to bury a body at sea, particularly if there is concern about the grave being desecrated.

[Hannah Bell]

20. yes, "permissable" if someone is expected to dig up the body & cut off its ears.

it isn't normal practice.

[aquart]

11. Yeah, they do.

http://www.seaservices.com/Muslim.htm

[Hannah Bell]

21. it isn't normal practice. which is what the announcement implies.

[tranche]

17. Quick. Make something else up.

[Hannah Bell]

22. it isn't normal practice, which is the implication when you say "he's been buried at sea per muslim

custom".

it's an exceptional practice allowed in two cases: when the person died at sea & the body will rot before you reach land, or if there's fear of enemies digging up the body & cutting off its ears.

i didn't make anything up.

[99th_Monkey]

3. They didn't wait 2 days?

How does that square with reports of Islamic custom of waiting at least 2 days?

Full disclosure: I only heard about the 2-day thing on-line tonight on-line, so
consider the source.

[liberalpragmatist]

6. Muslim tradition is within 24 hours

NT

[99th_Monkey]

8. Where we "bury" OBL's body...

... is all of a sudden, a very important public question?

But maybe an even more important question is HOW SOON we bury it?

Thanks for the heads up.

[ReturnoftheDjedi]

10. ^^^^^this

[d_b]

5. fedexd to pentagon

buried at sea is good PR though.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. That was my thought.

drop something in the water and call it 'bin laden', and ship the body back to Quantico for FBI forensics to identify.

[d_b]

12. probably end up

in some skull & bones ceremony

[99th_Monkey]

13. I hadn't even considered that

possibility.

kinda creepy huh?

[d_b]

14. I'm just a cynical bastard

that's the first thing I thought of. But I think they'll probably keep the skeleton in some pentagon vault where elites for years to come will look over it and ash cigars on it etc etc.

[99th_Monkey]

15. But, but. ...

It seems highly likely they'll be cremating OBL's body within
like 24-48 hours ... that's the word on the street.

or should I say, that's the word on Al Jaseera.

[d_b]

16. who knows...

maybe W. will get a femur for christmas, and Dick will get a Pelvis, and Biden a few ribs ;-)

[Hannah Bell]

24. cremation is reportedly forbidden to muslims.

seems strange al jazeera would report that.

[jmowreader]

18. They had to bury him at sea...

to keep his grave from getting desecrated by law-abiding Muslims.

Osama bin Laden is one of the biggest reasons half the Western world thinks every Muslim is either a practicing terrorist or someone with plans to become one. I am pretty certain the average Muslim--the guy who works a respectable job, pays his bills, takes care of his family and goes to mosque every Friday--is getting pretty fucking pissed off at being thought a terrorist by so many people just because of fuckheads like Osama and Colonel K. If they buried Osama on land, there'd be a long line of Muslims ready to piss on his grave.

[99th_Monkey]

19. If what you say is true,

if Muslims would be lining up in droves,
just to piss on any readily verifiable,
& accessible OBL grave,

then tell me this ...

Why in the fuck would Obama or *The Man*
not want this to happen? ... in broad daylight,
for all to se?

Checkmate.

unless you got something I ain't seen yet.

[Hannah Bell]

23. more likely they threw him in the ocean so his grave wouldn't become a site of pilgrimage.

like hitler.

[99th_Monkey]

25. That's what I heard on Al Jazeera

cremation and tossing ashes into sea.