Many credible commentators, including respected intelligence analysts and heads of state,  had claimed years before 2011 that bin Laden was already dead. It is  widely believed that bin Laden suffered from kidney disease; former  President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf stated in January 2002  that he thought the al Qaeda leader had died of the disease, and after  reviewing video footage of a poorly-looking bin Laden from late 2001,  CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta observed that his  “frosting of the appearance is something that people a lot of times  associate with chronic kidney failure, renal failure, certainly someone  who is requiring dialysis would have that.”
Even  if bin Laden was still alive in May 2011, events following his supposed  killing proved, for the rationally critical, very difficult to swallow.
Were  we really expected to accept without question bin Laden’s corpse being  hastily buried in the North Arabian sea, within 24 hours of his killing?  US authorities made the absurd claim that in doing so they were  following Islamic tradition, which dictates that a body should be buried  within 24 hours of death. Whilst this is true, Islamic tradition  definitely does not require burial at sea, other than in exceptional circumstances such as when a person dies during a sea voyage – when all effort must still be made to perform a burial in the ground.
Sceptics  also rightly point to historic examples of the US failing to respect  Islamic tradition – when, for example, Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and  Qusay were killed, and their bodies kept for 11 days before being  released for burial. It is difficult not to react with incredulity to  the manner in which bin Laden’s corpse was supposedly disposed; the  ultimate proof of his death, prime evidence which would clearly be  demanded by many, simply dumped in the sea.
The  public were of course prevented from seeing other evidence of bin  Laden’s death. Video footage of the raid and photographs of bin Laden’s  corpse, the government declared, were simply too gruesome to publish.
The  CIA, who claim to have 52 seperate photos and videos of the raid and  burial, has fought hard to keep their purported evidence secret.  A  Freedom Of Information Request for the photos prompted John Bennett,  director of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA, to claim that  releasing the images would pose a grave risk to national security.
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