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NYTimes: "Muslim tradition requires burial within 24 hours, but by doing it at sea, American authorities presumably were trying to avoid creating a shrine for
by Tomek_ 15y ago
NYTimes:
"Muslim tradition requires burial within 24 hours, but by doing it at sea, American authorities presumably were trying to avoid creating a shrine for his followers."
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-is-killed.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden...]
"It was 3:50 on Sunday afternoon when President Obama received the news that Bin Laden had tentatively been identified, most likely after a series of DNA tests."
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/02reconstruct-capture-osama-bin-laden.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/02reconstruct-c...]
- nitro9590 15y agook... thanks
- tkahn6 15y ago> but by doing it at sea, American authorities presumably were trying to avoid creating a shrine for his followers." This is exactly what the Israelis did with Eichmann. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann#Execution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann#Execution
- cosmicray 15y agoOne thing that isn't particularly clear, is the timestamps on tweet library. Based on the top entry, I presume those are UTC. So if the action kicked off at 1 AM PST (UTC+5 according to wiki), then it would have been 4 PM EDT (UTC-4) in Washington. 3:50 PM doesn't jive with this (unless Pakistan is on DST). Another article said that the burial at sea was completed by 2 AM EDT (so they presumably were done by 3 PM in Pakistan, about 14 hours after the first tweet).
- Tomek_ 15y agoYeah, times didn't hold up in the yesterday's reports, the attack was around 12-1AM in Pakistan as witnesses' reports state so it must have been around 3-4PM in Washington. Today's news are more accurate on that matter: "At 2:05 p.m., Mr. Panetta sketched out the operation to the group for a final time. Within an hour, the C.I.A. director began his narration, via video from Langley. “They’ve crossed into Pakistan,” he said." [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03intel.html?pagewanted=3 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03intel.html?pa...]