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Osama bin Laden Buried at Sea

U.S. assumes no country will accept remains.

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Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea after the U.S. figured no country would be willing to accept his remains. His corpse was handled in "accordance with Islamic practice," a White House official tells Politico, which includes burial within 24 hours of death. He died from two bullet wounds to the head after a firefight early Sunday in a mansion compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where he had been hiding. Navy SEALs raided the complex, killing bin Laden, one of his sons, two couriers, and one woman whom an al Qaeda member used as a human shield.

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