Gas Drilling Study Baseline Not Used, But Strong Claim Made

Gas Drilling Technique Contaminates Drinking Water, Study Finds

Published May 10, 2011 Associated Press

New research is providing some of the first scientific evidence that a controversial gas drilling technique can contaminate drinking water.

The study published Monday found potentially dangerous concentrations of methane gas in water from wells near drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania, although not in central New York, where gas drilling is less extensive.

But in an unexpected finding, the team of Duke University scientists did not find any trace of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process in 68 wells tested in Pennsylvania and Otsego County in central New York.

In hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, water, sand and chemicals are injected underground to crack the rock and get natural gas to flow into a well. Critics of the technique have worried more about the chemicals since companies have refused to make public the proprietary blends used and some of the ingredients can be toxic.

On average, water from wells located less than a mile from drilling sites had 17 times more methane than water tested from wells farther away, according to the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Methane is not known to be toxic, but in high concentrations it can be explosive and cause unconsciousness and even death, since it displaces oxygen needed to breathe.

Of the 60 wells tested for methane gas, 14 had levels of methane within or above a hazard range set by the Department of Interior for gas seeping from coal mines — all but one of them near a gas well. In nine wells, concentrations were so high that the government would recommend immediate action to reduce the methane level.

Methane is released naturally by bacteria as they break down organic matter. The researchers' analysis shows that the type of methane in the wells with the highest concentrations is coming from deep in the earth, the same place tapped by companies in search of natural gas.

In the most severe case, a homeowner in Bradford County, Pa., who leased her property to a gas company, has so much methane coming out of her tap she can light her water on fire. A natural gas well is located 800 feet from her house.

"Not every homeowner within a kilometer (of a drilling site) will have high methane concentrations," said Stephen Osborn, a postdoctoral associate at Duke University's Center on Global Change. "If you are a homeowner within a kilometer, and our study shows this, I would be a little bit concerned."

What the study does not say is how exactly the methane is getting into drinking water sources, and what part of the drilling is potentially involved. While wells closer to drilling sites had more methane, most of the wells in the study — 85 percent — had some.

Industry groups on Monday faulted the research, saying it did not show that fracking itself was behind the methane contamination, nor did the researchers conduct before-and-after tests to prove the contamination occurred after drilling. The authors themselves suspect that the methane is likely flowing up the sides of the gas well — rather than down pathways created by hydraulic fracturing.

"The authors admit they have no baseline data at all, which makes it impossible to characterize the state of those water wells prior to recent development," said Chris Tucker, a spokesman for Energy in Depth, a national coalition of independent gas producers.

The industry also was critical of the paper's editor, William H. Schlesinger, who selected the study's outside reviewers. Schlesinger, a biogeochemist and president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y, has supported moratoriums in New York on hydraulic fracturing permits until its effects are completely understood.

Gas drilling has expanded in Pennsylvania and other states where shale formations are thought to hold lots of natural gas, a clean-burning energy source. To get it, companies need to fracture the rock.

As the technique has proliferated, so too has concern among homeowners, and local, state and federal governments about its potential toll on underground drinking water sources which are unregulated and untested. Two federal agencies have launched their own studies, and the state of Pennsylvania — where numerous homeowners are suing drilling companies over water contamination — views methane as among the most serious risks of gas drilling.

In that state, an investigation into an explosion and fire at a house in December, and another at a home in February, is looking at natural gas drilling as the culprit. And a natural gas drilling company last year agreed to pay $4.1 million to 19 homeowners whose water was contaminated by methane gas, even though the company denies causing the pollution.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/10/gas-drilling-technique-contaminates-drinking-water-study-finds/

Hold the MSG: Food Triggers for Epilepsy and Other Neurological Illnesses

Alison Rose Levy.Health journalist, coach, and
Posted: October 26, 2009
Hold the MSG: Food Triggers for Epilepsy and Other Neurological Illnesses

Last week, 60 Minutes reported on David and Susan Axelrod's search for a cure for epilepsy prompted by their two decade plus experience of the ailment, which their adult daughter has suffered since infancy. But while Katie Couric admiringly covered the researchers seeking to find "the Cure," ie. new anti-convulsive drugs, once again proactive, preventive health care strategies that might help to reduce incidence of epileptic attacks were overlooked.

How ironic it is that in the midst of the health care reform debate, Axelrod, a key Obama aide, is so poorly informed about integrative strategies that could help his own daughter.

For neurological illnesses, including Parkinson's Disease, epilepsy, and others, a body of scientific research demonstrates that certain food additives, singly and in combination with each other, contribute to excessive nerve cell firing; and thus, may be a possible trigger for epileptic attacks and other neurological incidents. In keeping with that, limiting or altogether avoiding these ingredients is a strategy that some integrative physicians recommend, though many who could benefit are unaware of the dangers these common food additives pose.

Because of their activity--stimulating nerve cells to rapidly fire and burn out, ultimately resulting in nerve cell death, the food additives are considered to be "excitotoxins." While some naturally occur in the body, people who consume processed foods are exposed to a much greater amount than ever before since industrial food scientists regularly add them to processed foods to enhance the food's flavor. The most widely used food ingredients that have excitotoxic activity are monosodium glutamate, aspartame, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, and other additives that stimulate the taste buds and mask the flavor of many processed foods, Fresh, natural foods don't require this form of flavor enhancement. The artificial sweetener, aspartame, marketed as NutraSweet, Equal, and under several other brand names, is one of most widely consumed of the food additives with excitotoxic activity.

Nearly all food items sold in convenience stores are full of them, as are many processed, or packaged foods. If you read labels, you will discover that they are listed under many different names; and flavorings such as those in soups, soup mixes, and even many spices will often contain them as well.

With the increase in incidence of neurological illness, including Alzheimer's Disease, a basic proactive health strategy that many integrative practitioners recommend is to limit intake of these food ingredients. More information on excitotoxins can be found in Russell Blaylockm MD's book, Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills. Food Additives: A Shopper's Guide To What's Safe & What's Not by Christine Farlow is a shopper's guide to ingredient names.

For health information, science, and action, get the free ezine, the Health Outlook at www.health-journalist.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alison-rose-levy/hold-the-msg-food-trigger_b_333404.html

O'Reilly: Native American Community Don't be Offended Geroninmo Just a Code Name for Bin Laden

Has O'Reilly any kind of sense? Our government can do NO wrong by using Geronimo as a code name for the most-wanted TERRORIST the world has ever sought?

His two guests agreed with him. Arthelle Neville and Greg Gutfield. The government did no wrong, the military did no wrong by using a Native American name as a code for a slaughterer, murderer, claimed by the government to be responsible for the loss of 3,000 lives on United States soil (how many jumped out of World Trade Center building there's a good question on history tests)?

I could understand Gutfield and O'Reilly. Neocons, apparently. Stong-g hand.

Neville? No empathy, no common sense, no sympatico?

Why the hell wasn't the code name an acronym? Aim To Kill. ATK. Or anything benign.

Why select the name of a well known defender of his people? Geronimo.

Our government should apologize profusely. And whoever came up with the code should be out of a job. We're sure it wasn't President Barack Obama. And if he had any authorization of the code name - oh ok - I agree to Geronimo - he should be looked at even far more closely than he has been per his early childhood teaching.

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Official Narrative bin Laden Kill Change We Can Believe Now?

The Slippery Story of the bin Laden Kill
Garance Franke-Ruta senior editor at The Atlantic
May 3 2011
The early narrative of the assault on Osama bin Laden had him using his wife as a human shield and firing from behind her. Now we learn he wasn't armed.

http://www.theatlantic

.com/politics/archive/2011/05/the-slippery-story-of-the-bin-laden-kill/238261/

Glenn Beck: Destabilization Following Osama bin Laden's (days ago) Death

What more can be said? Glenn Beck spent many minutes dismissing any questioning surrounding the shooting of Osama bin Laden, such as was it really him since according to several experts, it takes days to obtain results from DNA testing, but somehow, "they" according to Dr. Baden as we noted in an earlier piece, "knew (from DNA) within 5 hours."

Beck then presented his - not a conspiracy theory - that destabilization would occur in the region due to bin Laden's death. He went on at length using his charts indicating he could accept such was intentional destabilization and even used lack of a quick U.S. response concerning Egypt's protests and turmoil as an example of such intentional destabilization!

Next, Beck introduced a guest and says he has few guests on he doesn't agree with many and it's usually just bull-crap - but this guest does not give us any bull-crap.

Michael Scheuer says it's going to be a long war and we're going to be fighting it for a very long time.

The pair move on to the Muslim Brotherhood... then in the final minutes Schaer said exactly what Beck had been angling for:

The Pakistan government is corrupt...

Beck made some comment just before that concerning destabilation.

"no matter if intentional or unintentional destabilization, it will happen..."

Goodbye Glenn. may you dream of butterflies along with dreaming up your own conspiracy uh not conspiracy theories.

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Khan: Pakistan has 'our most corrupt government'
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcast: 02/09/2010

Reporter: Tony Jones

Politician and cricketing great Imran Khan says Pakistan has a bigger problem with corruption than with Islamic extremism.


http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s3001222.htm

Interview Michael Scheuer by CFR

http://www.cfr.org/terrorism/winning-losing-inside-look-war-terror/p7771

CIA Veteran Michael Scheuer ‘Only the Taliban Are Not Corrupt’

Interview conducted by Marc Hujer
Der Speigel online

SPIEGEL: The US now has to face accusations that it is financing the very corruption it is promising to fight.

Scheuer: Not really. President Obama knew about this. His intelligence advisors knew about this. If he’s smart I’m sure the president would want to have somebody close to Karzai to know what’s going on. The US government and other governments are lying when they say that they can clean up corruption and win the war.

SPIEGEL: Is Washington being energetic enough in trying to fight corruption?

Scheuer: We’re really not in a position to push these people. Who’s going to replace them? There isn’t anyone less corrupt. Probably the only incorrupt people in Afghanistan are the Taliban. If you want no corruption, give the government back to the Taliban.

http://theislamicstandard.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/cia-veteran-michael-scheuer-only-the-taliban-are-not-corrupt/

How is a President to look when viewing real time assassination?

President Barack Obama leans forward with interest as Sec. of State Hillary Clinton covers her mouth while viewing real-time live feed of Osama bin Laden assassination

Meanwhile, according to Chicago Sun Time's Lynn Sweet's column which includes a photo of the onlookers, a classified document has been obscured.

Obama, Bill Daley, Hillary, War cabinet watching live feed of Bin Laden raid
By Lynn Sweet on May 2, 2011 5:30 PM

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/05/obama_bill_daley_hillary_war_c.html

Revealed at this site for the first time is the title of the obscured document...

Classified Document Obscured in Real-Time bin Laden Kill Watch Photo

(How to look Presidential and Strong when viewing a real-time assassination)

http://dirtline.tripod.com/talkacrosstown/

Guess Hillary's book covered her copy of the document before she could read it.

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National Journal Maggie Fox: Did DNA Finger bin Laden

Worth a read, Maggie Fox, National Journal piece: Did DNA Finger bin Laden?

The article reads like an opinion piece to us, so we're posting in its entirety.

We can't help but wonder why Dr. Baden, a guest on Monday morning programming Fox 'n Friends, did not highlight the technique noted in the article to obtain and analyze DNA data, within hours? PCR, or polymerase chain reaction...

Wouldn't Dr. Baden know the exact amount of time such could be compared to known DNA (in this case not DNA previously obtained from the subject and in storage, but from relatives)?

Why did Dr. Baden appear to be skeptical on Monday's Fox 'n Friends regarding the ability to obtain results from an analysis not only within 5 hours (when news broke Osama bin Laden was dead), but sooner than 24 hours?

Surely, Dr. Baden is aware...

The FBI has lots of ways to use DNA fingerprinting to identify culprits.

It can be done in hours using what is called PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, to amplify the tiny bits of DNA and then look for a specific part of the genetic code called short tandem repeats.

Although human beings share 99.9 percent of their DNA, these short tandem repeats, or STRs, tend to be very different from one person to another. The United States uses an agreed-upon set of 13 places for STRs in the genome, and the odds that two individuals will have the same DNA profile are about one in a billion, according to the Energy Department lab taking part in the Human Genome Project.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/did-dna-finger-bin-laden--20110502

Dr. Baden's comments remain puzzling. Others have questioned as well How do we know, or how was it known so early from DNA evidence, this was indeed Osama bin Laden?

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Did DNA Finger bin Laden?
By Maggie Fox

May 2, 2011 | 5:13 p.m

His face is one of the most recognizable in the world, but in the end, could it have been DNA fingerprinting that proved to U.S. officials that they had finally nailed Osama bin Laden?

Maybe – but the Obama administration had better be saving some evidence.

U.S. officials have told various news sources that CIA facial-recognition technology was used to identify bin Laden, and that his wife – apparently also killed in the attack – called him by name during the firefight that ended his life.

But they say that DNA was the final piece of evidence.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee told the AP that more than one DNA sample was used to identify bin Laden.

One problem – whose DNA did they compare it to?

According to several reports, U.S. intelligence experts have been collecting DNA from Osama’s many relatives for years. Hospital officials in Boston have been unable to confirm reports that one source of DNA was bin Laden’s half-sister, who allegedly died of brain cancer at a Harvard-affiliated hospital.

Bin Laden had plenty of half-brothers and half-sisters to offer DNA samples. He was the 17th child of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, who had 54 children with 22 wives. Bin Laden’s father died when he was 10.

The FBI has lots of ways to use DNA fingerprinting to identify culprits.

It can be done in hours using what is called PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, to amplify the tiny bits of DNA and then look for a specific part of the genetic code called short tandem repeats.

Although human beings share 99.9 percent of their DNA, these short tandem repeats, or STRs, tend to be very different from one person to another. The United States uses an agreed-upon set of 13 places for STRs in the genome, and the odds that two individuals will have the same DNA profile are about one in a billion, according to the Energy Department lab taking part in the Human Genome Project.

But does the government have earlier DNA that, for certain, came from bin Laden? Not likely, and so the next-best source is a sibling.

And in that case, says Stephen Quake, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor of applied physics and bioengineering at Stanford University, all the DNA analysis will say for sure is that the dead person is one of the many sons of Osama bin Laden’s father.

One factor could make things easier: Osama bin Laden was the only child whom his mother, Alia Ghanem, had with his father. That could make it easier to triangulate any tissue samples with samples from half-siblings.

It is not an exact science, however. DNA was used to establish that Thomas Jefferson was related to the descendants of his former slave, Sally Hemings. In that case the Y chromosome, which is passed down with very little change from father to son over the generations, was used. But all that the DNA indicated in the end was that descendants of Jefferson’s paternal uncle have the same Y chromosome as a male-line descendant of Eston Hemings, the youngest son of Sally Hemings. The research could never finger Jefferson individually with complete accuracy.

“You are still dealing with probabilities,” Quake said.

The best bet, Quake said, will be whole-genome analysis, which takes a week or more using current technology and will produce a complete map of the corpse’s DNA.

“They got the sample, Quake said. “They can take as much time as they want to do the analysis.”

If bin Laden’s mother, now known as Hamida al-Attas, could be persuaded to give some of her DNA, that might provide compelling evidence. She was last reported to be living in Saudi Arabia, and ABC News reported that U.S. officials had asked bin Laden’s relatives for DNA samples after they thought they might have killed him in a missile strike last February.

The White House says that bin Laden was buried at sea. One can only hope they kept some tissue and blood samples to back up the DNA claims.



http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/did-dna-finger-bin-laden--20110502

Fox 'n Friends Guest: What DNA Evidence?

Fox 'n Friends still allowing DNA has already been processed that would prove U.S. forces indeed captured and killed the right man, not just a look-a-like, Osama Bin Laden.

Monday, Dr. Baden commented in two ways to the trio's question:

How do we know it was Osama Bin Laden? Facial recognition, fingerprints, DNA?

Dr. Baden seemed to wonder about facial recognition (not 100% proof), noted fingerprinting could be utilized (but after all wouldn't they have to have his fingerprints on record, duh, we question), and Dr. Baden said DNA can be processed in 24 hours... "they" did it in 5 hours."

Nobody raised any further questions about how the DNA could have been processed long before 24 hours had passed.

Today, Chuck Boone was hot on the trail of proof this was Osama Bin Laden. He wondered why the Obama Administration had already buried the body at sea. Why not bring Osama Bin Laden here, and release the pictures of his demise.

Boone specifically posed: "what was the hurry?" He added further: How do we know this wasn't an operation in the style of Jack Bauer of TV'S "24" fame. Capture and torture, and Boone implied leaving evidence of it with bruising and eye-swelling, or absence of an eye altogether. (yes we were avid 24 viewers, almost all episodes, the sillier episodes we just swtiched channels, screaming at the unbelievability)

Boone then let out pretty much what had been on the 'trio's' minds Monday morning.

How do we know this was Osama Bin Laden?

Ellen Ratnor quickly responded: "... there's DNA evidence..."

Boone as quickly responded: "What DNA evidence."

Just when things were really heating up at that precise point, Steve Doocy ended the exchange.

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Sky News: Can US Offer Final Proof of Osama's Death?

US: DNA Test Match Proves Bin Laden Death
Can US Offer Final Proof Of Osama's Death?
Sky News 2011
The circumstances surrounding Osama bin Laden's reported death raise urgent questions over how the US is so sure it got its man.

US officials have said DNA testing has proved the al Qaeda leader was killed in a villa in Pakistan.

They have also identified him by facial recognition.

But photographs of Bin Laden after his reported death have not been released.

The fact his body was buried at sea has so far only added to the speculation, although as a Muslim, he had to be laid to rest as quickly as possible.

Under Islamic law, people can only be buried at sea if they died there, or if there is a risk their body will be exhumed or dug up if buried in the ground.

The release of a photograph purporting to show bin Laden's corpse - which was later confirmed to be a fake - added to the confusion.

Journalists have not yet had the opportunity to ask more than a few questions of the Obama administration about details of Bin Laden's death.

A former British ambassador to the US, Sir Christopher Meyer, told Sky News: "I imagine we will see proof.

"I can't concede the US president would go out to make a statement to the world that bin Laden is dead without being able to produce evidence that he is dead.

"I think we will see some evidence - DNA or photographic - to prove there is not still some phantom Osama bin Laden riding the Tora Bora mountains."

The announcement is not the first time the world has heard of Bin Laden's death. Claims that the US and Britain kept up a pretence he was alive in order to continue their war on terror have been dismissed as conspiracy theories.

It has been suggested that bin Laden died nearly 10 years ago during the battle for Tora Bora in Afghanistan, either from a US bomb or from kidney disease.

And as for his audio and video statements, their authenticity has continually been questioned.

One of his video statements, released just days before the October 2004 US presidential election, was said to have been crucial in helping George Bush secure a second term in office.

But his statement from December 2001, when he was seen to confess to the 9/11 attacks, has attracted the most attention.

Bin Laden had insisted numerous times, through the Arab press and in video statements, that he had no involvement with the atrocities. His sudden confession was picked up on by doubters.

Additionally, his appearance in the December 2001 video was markedly different. He sported a black beard, not his usual grey one, his pale skin had become darker and he had a different shaped nose.

He also looked in good health - a contrast to his earlier gaunt appearance - and critics have pointed to the fact he is seen writing a note with his right hand, although he was left-handed

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110502/twl-can-us-offer-final-proof-of-osama-s-3fd0ae9.html

Is it really Osama Bin Laden? Dr. Baden Answers Raise Questions

Reportedly, Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan by CIA intel with the help of Navy Seals.

Osama bin Laden is killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan

Fox New: Osama bin Laden killed

Matt Drudge headline

SHOT IN HEAD; BIN LADEN IS DEAD.....

Yahoo News

US kills Osama bin Laden decade after 9/11 attacks

This morning, just before before 9 am EST, with several guests one after the other, Fox 'n Friends discussed the reports that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan, then with guest Dr. Baden, the trio specifically raised the question:

(At this early time) How do we know it is really Osama Bin Laden who has been killed.

They bantered for a while with Dr. Baden, facial recognition, fingerprints, bio-data, DNA?

The question arose again: How do we know this was Osama Bin Laden specifically through DNA?

The discussion was really fascinating.

Dr. Baden's comments were hesitant on facial recognition (especially if the reports are true and Osama Bin Laden had been shot in the head, duh) a little more clear on the potential for fingerprinting confirming identity, but certainly not 100% (that on site testing again), then Dr. Baden proposed the following regarding bio-data/DNA:

"DNA can be determined within about 24 hours. They (meaning medical professionals on scene in Pakistan) must have done it in less than 5 hours"

Nobody on Fox 'n Friends asked follow-up questions after Dr. Baden's thought-provoking pronouncements.

The matter that was on the Fox 'n Friends trio's minds, how is it known for sure that was Osama Bin Laden who was killed, was no longer of any importance.

Why didn't anybody press Dr. Baden on the odd comment after Baden noted DNA can be determined within 24 hours - "they must have done it in less than 5 hours."

Then we find these two interesting headlines

Drudge headline DNA tests won't be complete for days...

Yahoo news headline, U.S. tests bin Laden's DNA, used facial ID: official

U.S. tests bin Laden's DNA, used facial ID: official
Mon May 2, 2:20 am ET

The United States is conducting DNA testing on slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and used facial recognition techniques to help identify him, a U.S. official said on Monday.

Bin Laden was identified by the assault force that killed him in a firefight in Pakistan in which he resisted and was shot in the head, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Results of the DNA tests should be available in the next few days, the official told Reuters.

The strike force was on the ground for less than 40 minutes and the operation was watched real-time by CIA Director Leon Panetta and other intelligence officials in a conference room at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the official said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110502/ts_nm/us_binladen_dna_1

the problem is the headline of the Yahoo piece makes it seem as though the word official applies to the DNA test (and facial recognition) and thus it has already been confirmed by DNA tests Osama Bin Laden is dead.

The Drudge headline read accurately per the Yahoo News text within the body of the article:

Results of the DNA tests should be available in the next few days, the official told Reuters.



We are just puzzled by Dr. Baden's comment "they must have done it in 5 hours."

We're wondering why it was so important for Dr. Baden to allow that DNA testing had confirmed Osama Bin Laden is dead especially when he had just explained a 24-hour time period was possible.

Could it be that Dr. Baden's two divergent answers revealed the real potential for the military and President Barack Obama to be jumping the gun so to speak on the announcement Osama Bin Laden is dead, has indeed been killed by U.S. forces?

Why not wait the 24 hours at least to confirm DNA tests are accurate and this was Osama Bin Laden who was killed by U.S. forces? Or even a few days, because according to the noted prominent Drudge Report headline, DNA test results wouldn't be known, for days!

The Fox 'n Friends group also discussed whether Osama Bin Laden's remains would be 'buried' at sea. Will they use weights so the body doesn't wash back up on shore? Dr. Baden agreed it would be gruesome if body parts washed up onto shore.

We kid you not, the discussion was FASCINATING!

We couldn't help but wonder why Osama Bin Laden's body would not be brought back to the United States to make absolutely certain it is Osama Bin Laden and not yet another potential 'double?'

Notice, too, when speaking, the trio used the name Osama Bin Laden.

The ticker-tape running across the screen reads Usama bin Laden, however.

Maybe it's because the ticker-tape message changes periodically to President Obama or just Obama.

It is interesting as well that reports are Osama Bin Laden has 'already' been buried at sea.

Finally, now we find this headline

AP publishes, retracts photo of bin Laden's dead body

Wire service admits it cannot independently verify identity of person in picture
--Pasadena Star-News, California

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UPDATED 12:33 a.m.: AP retracts photo purporting to show Osama bin Laden's dead bodyPosted: 05/01/2011 11:14:26 PM PDT


The Associated Press has retracted a photograph released late Sunday night purporting to show the dead body of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.
AP announced that it cannot independently verify that the person in the photo is Osama bin Laden nor can it confirm the source.

Read more: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_17972189#ixzz1LCpRMAOD