I'm not a conspiracy theorist by nature. Mostly I try to follow the rule known as Occam's Razor--always choose the simplest explanation for your data. My impression is that conspiracy theorists tend to rather convoluted explanations of events. However, when a simple explanation doesn't work...
I'm talking about Osama bin Laden, and wondering what really happened yesterday. The Special Ops people didn't take photographs--there were photos of Che Guevara after he was killed. A guy who tweeted from Abbottabad, Pakistan, reported the helicopter attack without knowing who the copters were after-his first tweet was at 1:00 am. The U.S. government says that our troops buried bin Laden at sea at 2:30 am, and that between the time he was killed and the time he was buried, they washed the body and had someone read prayers over it.
It couldn't have been 2:30 the following night. They said they buried him in a hurry, because Islam requires burial within 24 hours.
The driving distance from Abbottabad to the nearest seaport, Karachi, is 1570 km or 975 miles. A helicopter would take a straighter path--let's say it cut 1/3 of the driving distance and flew 650 miles. The cruise speed of a Blackhawk helicopter is 173 mph; maximum speed is 183 mph. At maximum speed, it would have taken 3.5 hours to fly to Karachi.
If they loaded the body on a Boeing 737, flight time is 1.5 hours, because the 737 flies at 491 mph. This still doesn't allow time to wash the body, pray over it, drive it to the airport, etc.
The government story doesn't make sense. I don't know what really happened in Abbottabad, and I don't think the American public is likely to find out.
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