Burial at Sea. Osama bin Laden dead?

Release the pictures. Because I am dubious. The fact that he was immediately "buried at sea" makes me dubious as well.

I can understand that perhaps America is finally trying to be respectful of the take down of a inflammatory icon, but previous history shows that America has had a ballsier take on this. Pablo Escobar's death is an example. Granted the mercenary group took him down were not technically American, they certainly were sponsored by the US. Saddam Huessein's execution was widely spread across the American media.

So far, the official storyline is: "'Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult,' a US official said. 'So the US decided to bury him at sea.'" Which means that America was too much of a pussy to accept his body.

The Guardian (UK) reports, "Senior US officials told news agencies that his body would be disposed of in accordance with Islamic tradition, which involves ritual washing, shrouding and burial within 24 hours." Again, this seems excessive care for someone who supposably declared War on America and launched the biggest pre-emptive attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor. Why? House of Saud. America, who's your daddy?

I think it is important to remember that Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein were not given the same care and concern that bin Laden was. Their bodies were embalmed 11 days after they were killed by US forces and later their bodies were shown to media.

After all this, I feel that we are just being told another lie. It became clear, no more denying the truth of your own beliefs, on 9/11 watching the news unfold. Seeing the details, the images that belie the truth. Seeing the small smoking hole in the Pentagon and being told a jumbo jetliner crashed through it. What? Being told a jetliner crashed in a field in Pennsylvania and just seeing a smoking ditch in the ground and no debris. Being told in a newscast that Building #2 has imploded and fallen, 20 minutes before it did.

Lies told to us by our government? I accept it now. The key is to finding out what it is they are trying to hide or what it is they want to manipulate to gain their advantage.

Cynical? Yeah. America, Fuck Yeah.

May 1st, 2011 - Osama bin Laden dead.

Photo by Tina Fineberg via The Daily Herald. Scene at the site of the WTC the night of May 1, 2011.

We mourned for so fucking long that I can't deny that there is some jubilation in celebrating Osama bin Laden's demise, if for nothing else but to say good bye and close a chapter to a fucked-up ten years. I can’t help but feel some vindication. Naïve, I know, I know, but just let me believe for a little bit, just for tonight.

There are highs and lows here. The other feelings are of dubiousness of what this is really about because I have a definite belief about who/what was behind 9/11, reflection - my whole world changed that day, sickness, hospitals, sorrow, nursing someone back to health...a friend of mine and I were on the phone tonight remembering our stories again of that day...so there is a feeling of healing now but not without reflection, not without reliving it.