The Search Goes On

You might have thought the Navy Seal raid on May 2 that resulted in the killing of most-wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden was pretty much the end of that chapter of history.

But no.

There’s a guy in California – a deep-sea-treasure-hunter guy – who says he’s not satisfied with the official story of bin Laden’s death and is going to go search for the body that was reportedly dumped into the Arabian Sea after a quick funeral observance on the deck of a U.S. ship.

Bill Warren, whose age in stories has been either 59 or 67, is telling reporters he’s not satisfied with his government’s handling of the assassination and that photos of a dead bin Laden should have been shown to the American people and the world-at-large to prove conclusively that the long-sought Chief Evil Doer is REALLY dead.

But wait a minute. Does this really make any sense?

First of all, does the world need MORE proof that bin Laden is dead? Al Qaida has already gone public saying they’ve chosen his successor. Remember, this is bin Laden’s little private army of devoted followers and they’re not disputing his passing.

But second and much more to the point, if you don’t believe he’s REALLY dead, why would you want to mount an expensive search for his body? Why spend the $400,000 Warren says it will likely cost to drag all of his sophisticated sonar equipment to the middle of the Arabian Sea – which is a pretty BIG piece of ocean – and spend who knows how long to probably never find it because it would just be a speck on the vast ocean floor?

Well, Mr. Warren – from most reports – is somewhat conspiratorially-minded – Surprise! – and doesn’t really believe Osama is dead. You see, he tends to believe his government would rather lie to him for some unknown but probably sinister reason than accept the real reason given: that the bin Laden death photos were too gruesome to release and could have resulted in a new wave of terrorism and fanatical martyrdom.

So is Warren hoping to ultimately make some kind of statement that, by NOT finding the body – as will almost certainly be the case – it or Osama himself MUST be somewhere else?
Being concealed, no doubt, by the government.

OK, I try not to get political in this blog, so let’s get back to Mr. Warren’s quest for The Truth.
He tells anyone willing to listen he has a “good idea” where bin Laden’s body might be located and is also hoping someone who was on the Navy burial ship might contact him with some coordinates.

And he says a body would likely stay preserved for some time because it’s inside a sealed, rubber-lined Navy burial bag.

Warren claims he’s located more than 200 shipwrecks and says finding a body bag containing a decaying, six-foot-five-inch terrorist is not impossible.

“You can get lucky,” Warren told a local news station. “There’s never been a shipwreck I didn’t find.”

And if he actually finds Osama’s corpse?

“We would photograph, videotape, do a DNA test and then try to figure out what we are going to do with the body after that,” Warren said.

Uh, OK. Here’s hoping he never gets the chance to figure that one out.

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