BIN LADEN APPARENTLY BURIED AT SEA – AT 7:38 A.M. ET:  As Staples says, "That was easy."

News reports say that Osama bin Laden, biologically impacted yesterday by an American team, has been buried at sea.  This is entirely logical, and it's not the first time the oceans have been used to swallow up a demon.  When Israel executed Adolph Eichmann, the organizer of the Holocaust, he was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea.  The purpose:  A burial site on land can become a shrine. 

A number of leaders, including Angela Merkel of Germany and David Cameron of Britain, have praised the American operation that led to bin Laden's final chapter.  But it is reported that Al Qaeda websites, and those of fellow travelers, are filled with outrage and anguish.  Thus, American officials have alerted U.S. embassies around the world to take special precautions.  Those precautions will extend to the United States itself.  Retaliatory attacks are expected.  From WaPo:

WASHINGTON — The State Department early Monday put U.S. embassies on alert and warned of the heightened possibility for anti-American violence after the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden by American forces in Pakistan.

In a worldwide travel alert released shortly after President Barack Obama late Sunday announced bin Laden’s death in a U.S. military operation, the department said there was an “enhanced potential for anti-American violence given recent counterterrorism activity in Pakistan.”

Americans are reacting with understandable glee, and with a sense that justice has been done.  However, we have yet to hear from Code Pink or the ACLU.

May 2, 2011