May 2, 2011

How about a little whine to go with your funeral

From Yahoo/Associated Press:
Islamic scholars criticize bin Laden's sea burial
Muslim clerics said Monday that Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was a violation of Islamic tradition that may further provoke militant calls for revenge attacks against American targets.

Although there appears to be some room for debate over the burial � as with many issues within the faith � a wide range of senior Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard Muslim practice of placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca.

Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship.

Bin Laden's burial at sea "runs contrary to the principles of Islamic laws, religious values and humanitarian customs," said Sheik Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand Imam of Cairo's al-Azhar mosque, Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning.

A radical cleric in Lebanon, Omar Bakri Mohammed, said, "The Americans want to humiliate Muslims through this burial, and I don't think this is in the interest of the U.S. administration."

A U.S. official said the burial decision was made after concluding that it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. There was also speculation about worry that a grave site could have become a rallying point for militants.
Word up guys -- we have a lot more than just Obama's Osama's corpse. We have his computers. We have videos and if there is a lot of 'seething' on 'Arab Street', these videos will be released. As for the hard drives, they are being gone over with a fine toothed comb. It was cool that we got him. It was a major intelligence treasure that we got his computers. Posted by DaveH at May 2, 2011 11:21 AM
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