‘We thought the best way to ensure that his body was given an appropriate Islamic burial,’ Brennan said, ‘was to take those actions that would allow us to do th

‘We thought the best way to ensure that his body was given an appropriate Islamic burial,’ Brennan said, ‘was to take those actions that would allow us to do that burial at sea.’ Islamic burials don't specify unceremoniously chucking people into the deep blue sea. Occam's Razor suggests that he was thrown into the ocean to prevent proper identification. Or, if it was really him, that he was killed and discarded to prevent interviews/investigations into his past associations. The fact that the government would pretend to worry about "appropriate Islamic burials" stinks to high heaven.