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A statement purporting to come from a son of Osama bin Laden denounced the al Qaeda leader’s killing as “criminal” and said his burial at sea had humiliated the family, an online monitoring service said.
The statement, attributed to Omar bin Laden, bin Laden’s fourth eldest son, said the al Qaeda chief’s children reserved the right to take legal action in the United States and internationally to “determine the true fate of our vanished father,” the SITE Intelligence Group said.
There was no independent confirmation of the authenticity of the letter, published on the website of Islamist ideologue Abu Walid al-Masri, although several specialists on militant propaganda said the text appeared genuine.
Omar bin Laden, who has been based in the Gulf in recent years, did not immediately respond to emailed and telephoned requests for comment.
The letter said, in part: “We hold the American President (Barack) Obama legally responsible to clarify the fate of our father, Osama bin Laden, for it is unacceptable, humanely and religiously, to dispose of a person with such importance and status among his people, by throwing his body into the sea in that way, which demeans and humiliates his family and his supporters and which challenges religious provisions and feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims.”
The letter said the U.S. administration had offered no proof to back up its account of the mission. It alleged the goal of the raid had been to kill and not arrest, adding that afterwards the American commandos had “rushed to dispose of the body.”
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Some Muslims have misgivings about how U.S. forces killed bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan on May 2 and disposed of his body in the ocean.
Questions have multiplied since the White House said the al Qaeda leader was unarmed when U.S. helicopter-borne commandos raided the villa where he was hiding in the city of Abbottabad.
Bin Laden’s swift burial at sea, in what many Muslims say was a violation of Islamic custom, has also stirred anger.
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Bowl movements; First year in religious studies I found out the book of Mormons was written during a religious blockage on the holy grail(toilet), its true, I have loved every aspect of human biology since them. Why isn’t Omar on Awa photos as everyone who seems to get themselves on tv, news, newspaper argue with politicians, play cards on a video while a chick sings the blues is on the site. Joke of the day- A squirrel in the forest was getting ready for the long winter, it went picking up nuts. Three were stuck in the she squirrel month the fourth nut went a-wall and split, leaving half of itself inside the she squirrel. It was the first time I saw a nut limping, in the exception a former saint in his past life. The she squirrel eventually got tired of trying to pick up a half but and went off to soak on a beach with haziz’s. Opa you missing the party!