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For many, the raid in Abbottabad felt like the closing of a wound. Osama bin Laden was dead, the world was told, and his body buried at sea in accordance with Islamic tradition and urgent security concerns. The details were sparse, the images classified, and the narrative tightly controlled. In that vacuum, suspicion thrived. Conspiracy theories\u2014body doubles, secret prisons, staged deaths\u2014spread faster than any official explanation could contain.<\/p>\n

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Robert O\u2019Neill, the former SEAL who insists he fired the fatal shots, has long pushed back on those claims, defending the mission and the men who risked their lives. Yet his recent insistence that he had nothing to do with the burial, paired with his own stark admission that he\u2019d rather have seen bin Laden\u2019s body displayed from a New York bridge, underscores the unresolved tension. The operation ended one man\u2019s life, but not the world\u2019s need to see, to know, to be certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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