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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

But if he was who he supposedly was, and they had every chance to take him alive (which they did), then he would potentially have been an absolute goldmine of anti-terrorist intelligence? Yet he was "oops" killed in, supposedly, some sort of trigger-happy raid where he may or may not have been holding a potato gun.

And then the body was "disposed of" very quickly, in questionable circumstances, with near nonsensical excuses.

It just doesn't make any sense. The story doesn't add up, at all. What's the real reason for the body dump? I'm not quite on board with the idea that it wasn't him (some people suggest it was all PR and he had actually randomly died months earlier) but my personal suspicion is that forensic examination of the body wouldn't have matched up with the story that was given about how he was killed. For example, if he was shot from behind while running away, or if he was already tied up and then executed.

They did everything in keeping with Islamic law; not providing Islamic extremists ammunition to kill troops. It's the same reason why Hitler's bunker's location is also kept a secret by the German government. Everything was done correctly. Yes, it fuels conspiracy theories, but conspiracy theorists will always come up with something no matter what.