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Was Osama
not buried but body flown to US for cremation?
Wednesday March 07, 2012 10:26:15 PM,
IANS
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London: While former
Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is popularly known to have been
given a sea burial, some emails leaked from an intelligence
analysis firm have suggested that his body had actually been taken
to the US for cremation.
According to the emails, the Al Qaeda chief, shot and killed
during the famous Navy Seal Team Six raid on his compound in
Pakistan's Abbottabad city May 2, was transported back to the US
and cremated, the Daily Mail reported.
The emails were allegedly obtained by the hacker group Anonymous
from Stratfor, an organisation dealing with intelligence and
geopolitical analyses.
After Osama was killed in the famous raid in Pakistan May 2, 2011,
the Obama administration said his body was buried at sea off the
USS Carl Vinson - in accordance with Islamic traditions.
Last week, Anonymous announced that it had got access to 2.7
million of the firm's confidential correspondences, and said they
could provide "the smoking gun for a number of crimes".
The hackers said Stratfor, based in Austin, Texas, were "clueless"
when it came to database security.
But in a particular set of emails given to WikiLeaks, the
Stratfor's vice president for intelligence, Fred Burton, says he
doubts the official White House version of what happened to
Osama's body.
Burton says the body was "bound for Dover, [Delaware] on [a] CIA
plane" and "onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in
Bethesda [Maryland]".
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