Revealed: The Bin Laden burial e-mails
“Traditional procedures for Islamic burial was followed,” the 2 May email from Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette reads. “The deceased’s body was washed (ablution) then placed in a white sheet. The body was placed in a weighted bag. A military officer read prepared religious remarks, which were translated into Arabic by a native speaker. After the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, whereupon the deceased’s body slid into the sea.”
Earlier, Gaouette, then the deputy commander of the navy’s Fifth Fleet, and another officer used code words to discuss whether the helicopters carrying the Seals and Bin Laden’s body had arrived on the Carl Vinson.
“Any news on the package for us?” he asked Rear Admiral Samuel Perez, commander of the carrier strike group that included the Vinson.
“Fedex delivered the package,” Perez responded. “Both trucks are safely en route home base.”
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It’s all fakery.
Schadenfreude on November 22, 2012 at 12:12 PM
I thought some guy had located where they dumped the POS and was going to try to recover it.
Personally, I am offended that we treated his corspe so well. He did not deserve it and it was done to placate the terrorists.
Blake on November 22, 2012 at 12:14 PM
There is nothing here that anyone who has ever witnessed a commitment at sea would not know.
On a carrier, it is performed off elevator 3 from the hanger deck level.
Wander on November 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM
I hope they put a ham,Bacon, and a Pork Shank in with him.
portlandon on November 22, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Well I wonder if getting this news out will get the rop type all bent out of shape again? It doesn’t take much for that to happen!
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letget on November 22, 2012 at 12:22 PM
They treated him better than they treat the Soldiers.
Schadenfreude on November 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM
As my younger cousins say “Photos or it didn’t happen.”
mjk on November 22, 2012 at 12:26 PM
“Traditional procedures for Islamic burial was followed,”
Official dhimmitude. Pathetic.
The left loves nothing more than showing pictures of dead Americans but goes so far out of their way to treat the fetid corpse of an enemy of civilization with ‘muslikm respect’. Everyone connected to this dhimmi operation should be tried. But … not in the American Socialist Superstate, where dhimmitude is the effective law of the land, now. Yay!
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on November 22, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Where are the GM burial emails?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on November 22, 2012 at 12:36 PM
Bin Laden was also treated better than the 1000s of 9/11 victims.
For shame!
Shy Guy on November 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM
Up, up, up,
In a puff of Volt!
Shy Guy on November 22, 2012 at 1:01 PM
Well, this is great. Now, the muzzies won’t put quite as many nails in their next bus bomb.
yubley on November 22, 2012 at 1:27 PM