Thread:Comments:Osama bin Laden dead, report U.S. officials/This entire story doen't pass the "smell test"!/reply (3)

Surely this would be a very transparent ploy if bin Laden turned up on YouTube with a copy of todays newspaper; I don't think that conspiracy theories are going to be needed here. The DNA evidence probably sin't actually conclusively verified yet, I doubt it can be done so rapidly, although this is a special case. The very rapid burial at sea was probably to avoid hoards of people coming to either a burial site or storage facitlity to sing his praises or piss on it and cause a massive riot.