No... they prepared it for burial and buried it at sea so that there would be no place on the planet where the 'faithful' (read Complete nutjobs) could come and pay homage, worship or create some kind of shrine. The Israeli's did the same with Eichmann. As well they should have.
He was prepared, washed, wrapped, dropped with his head towards Mecca, all that shit... that he didn't deserve. But at sea, not in some desert where they could make a martyr out of his site. And, sadly, done in a way so as not to offend the %$#@ing masses who thought he was a demi-god.
If it had been up to me... he would have been left on the carrier deck as seagull food... until he bloated in the sun, then he would have been wrapped inside a boar hog and buried with his feet towards Mecca on the Golan Heights with a Synagogue urinal emptying into his crypt. But wasn't up to me. I'm not nearly as nice or accommodating as DevGru.
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