Official: Bin Laden Buried at Sea
By AP / MATT APUZZO
A video grab dated June 19, 2001 shows Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in a video tape said to have been prepared and released by bin Laden himself.
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After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body to be buried within 24 hours, the official said. Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult, the official said. So the U.S. decided to bury him at sea.
The official, who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security matters, did not immediately say where that occurred.