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Treasure Hunter Says He Has Located Bin LadenÂ’s Body
2012-05-03
That smiling guy is Bill Warren, the Californian treasure hunter who claimed he was searching for Osama Bin Laden's dead body back in June 2011. He didn't find him then, but now he claims he has located the cadaver.
What? Even the crabs wouldn't have him?
Warren—who claims he has discovered more than 200 shipwrecks during his career as a treasure-hunter—says that bin Laden's body is still at that same location, deep under water. His thought is that, since the Navy weighted down the bag, the body hasn't moved from where it was dropped. He is now trying to rent Russian deep diving equipment to locate his payload, and to conduct DNA tests once he finds him.

At least, that's what he believes. He says he pinpointed the drop point from photos recently released by the US Navy.

Warren is now in Azerbaijan, apparently working for their government in a contract to locate some old ships. But he is ready to start the diving for Osama's body bag: he says he's aiming at starting the mission on June 1, and that he may be able to find the body in "under a week." He also claims that the search would last a maximum of three months. He declares that his only fear is that the US Government would kill him or sink his boat.
Trust me, you have nothing to fear except fear itself.
Warren is now searching for $200,000 to finance the whole operation (Bill, I suggest Kickstarter).
Try George Soros.
He wouldn't have needed that money had he located the Trinidad, the famous Spanish ship loaded with Aztec gold that sunk in the coast of California in 1540. Warren has repeatedly tried to locate that treasure, once in 1976 and then again in 1987. Back then he claimed he had located the Trinidad, but obviously he didn't.

The same could probably be true with Bin Laden's body. It's highly unlikely that, even if he were right about the location—and again, there's very little chance he is—he would be able to find a body bag in the bottom of the deep sea.
No, Obean had his body stuffed. He's in a closet in the oval office. Since he's just taken a dose of his home-made viagra when they caught him, they're using him as a coat rack.
Warren says he is doing this because he doesn't "believe the Obama administration" and he wants to have proof that it is really his body. But, if he doesn't believe President Obama and the United States Navy, why would the body be down there at all? If he thinks that they are lying, the most logical thing is to believe that they never buried the body at sea.
Tell all the jihadis. It's just a couple of miles off the Pakistani shore. They can swim out their easily and check for themselves.
But who knows, maybe Bill will prove himself right this time. Or maybe the body will not be there because Osama bin Laden is alive and well, playing cards and drinking mai tais with Elvis and Marilyn, in that secret government paradise island in the middle of the Pacific.
Why don't you ask Nancy to check into it? You can tell her she needs to go there to see who's there.
Posted by:gorb

#3  Depending on what the body was put in before it was dumped overboard, there is probably not a lot left to find. Food sources like that do not survive long on the ocean's floor: it is like dumping a pot roast out in the middle of a desert. Everything for miles around comes after its bite of the morsel.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2012-05-03 21:37  

#2  And quite idiotic: He's claiming that we MUST question the veracity of the United States Government as long as he is UNABLE to find the body.

I am sorry, but my honor is not dependent on your incompetence.
Posted by: Ptah   2012-05-03 15:22  

#1  Prizes available onshore as well...dog poop can often be found at the park.
Posted by: 2Sealys   2012-05-03 09:09  

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