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Osama Sea Burial. Internal emails offer details on Osama bin Laden's burial. Internal emails among US military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony. New controversy over Osama bin Laden's sea burial.

In a new twist to Osama bin Laden saga, emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the al-Qaeda leader was actually sent to the US for cremation than buried in sea. Mullen retired from the military in September Samuel Perez, commander of the carrier strike group that included the Vinson. Although the Obama administration has pledged to be the most transparent in American history, it is keeping a tight hold on materials related to the Bin Laden raid. The Defence Department also refused to confirm or deny the existence of helicopter maintenance logs and reports about the performance of military gear used in the raid.

One of the stealth helicopters that carried the SEALs to Abbottabad crashed during the mission and its wreckage was left behind. And there was the question of whether the U. Special Forces at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. When U. News articles quoted American officials both on and off the record who said that the U. Articles speculated that the country was Saudi Arabia, where bin Laden was born. Although this deviates from the way most Muslim burials occur, U.

Muslim leaders and scholars had varying opinions on the appropriateness of burying him at sea. Some argued that sea burials should only happen when a person dies at sea; otherwise, the body should be buried in the ground with the head pointed toward Mecca, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad.

Although the funeral service for bin Laden took place aboard a large Navy aircraft carrier with thousands of crew members, only a small group of people were present.