(May 2, 2011 at 3:47 pm)Chuck Wrote: Basically, dropping him over the side deprive muslims of the possibility of worshipping his grave as a shrine, while not appearing to go out of the way to desecrate his body. It's much the same as what was done to Nurenburg war crime convicts sentenced to death.
Well that makes a little more sense ...
But my point is that they should have at least taken pictures or let more people see the corpse to verify that this was actually Osama's body (before dumping it in the sea).