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Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Eating less salt doesn't cut heart risks: study 03 May 2011 Bush declines Obama's invitation to "Ground Zero" 12:10am EDT U.S. says bin Laden photo "gruesome," weighs release 03 May 2011 Bin Laden not armed during assault: White House | 03 May 2011 Aerosmith's Steven Tyler rips "Celebrity Rehab" 03 May 2011 Discussed 167 Obama to make statement late Sunday, White House says 107 Donald Trump calls U.S. leaders ”stupid” 106 White House releases longer Obama birth certificate Watched Video of bin Laden compound fire Mon, May 2 2011 Fire ants form rafts to defy floods Tue, Apr 26 2011 Bin Laden unarmed when killed - White House Tue, May 3 2011 Concerns raised over shooting of unarmed bin Laden, burial Tweet Share this By Erik Kirschbaum and Jonathan Thatcher BERLIN/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The killing of Osama bin Laden when he was unarmed has raised concerns the United States may have gone too far in acting as policeman, judge and executioner of the world's most... Email Print Factbox Factbox: Details of the Osama bin Laden raid Tue, May 3 2011 Related News U.S. says bin Laden unarmed; more pressure on Pakistan 3:22am EDT U.S. seeks answers on whether Pakistan aided bin Laden Tue, May 3 2011 UPDATE 4-US says bin Laden photo "gruesome," weighs release Tue, May 3 2011 Bin Laden not armed during assault: White House Tue, May 3 2011 Analysis & Opinion Bin Laden sea burial not in line with Islam, Muslim clerics say Islamist militants hold prayers for bin Laden in Pakistan Related Topics World » Osama bin Laden » Related Video Some condemn bin Laden's death Mon, May 2 2011 U.S. seeks answers over Bin Laden An unidentified Islamic Group leader speaks after a mass ''standing prayer'' organized by Islamic Groups to honour al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who was shot dead in Pakistan, in Khartoum May 3, 2011. Around 1,000 people on Tuesday gathered in the centre of Khartoum to praise bin Laden, chanting ''Death to America''. A radical Islamist party had called for the mass prayer to honour the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 plane attacks in the United States who was killed in a U.S. operation in Pakistan. Credit: Reuters/Stringer By Erik Kirschbaum and Jonathan Thatcher BERLIN/SINGAPORE | Wed May 4, 2011 3:12am EDT BERLIN/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The killing of Osama bin Laden when he was unarmed has raised concerns the United States may have gone too far in acting as policeman, judge and executioner of the world's most wanted man. But for several Muslim leaders, the more unsettling issue is whether the al Qaeda leader's burial at sea was contrary to Islamic practice. The White House said on Tuesday that bin Laden had resisted the U.S. team which stormed his Pakistan hideout and that there had been concerns he would "oppose the capture operation." Spokesman Jay Carney declined to specify what sort of resistance bin Laden offered but added: "We expected a great deal of resistance and were met with a great deal of resistance. There were many other people who were armed ... in the compound." Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told German TV the operation could have incalculable consequences in the Arab world at a time of unrest there. "It was quite clearly a violation of international law," . It was a view echoed by high-profile Australian human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson. "It's not justice. It's a perversion of the term. Justice means taking someone to court, finding them guilty upon evidence and sentencing them," Robertson told Australian Broadcasting Corp television from London. "This man has been subject to summary execution, and what is now appearing after a good deal of disinformation from the White House is it may well have been a cold-blooded assassination." Robertson said bin Laden should have stood trial, just as World War Two Nazis were tried at Nuremburg or former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was put on trial at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague after his arrest in 2001. "The last thing he wanted was to be put on trial, to be convicted and to end his life in a prison farm in upstate New York. What he wanted was exactly what he got - to be shot in mid-jihad and get a fast track to paradise and the Americans have given him that." Gert-Jan Knoops, a Dutch-based international law specialist, said bin Laden should have been arrested and extradited to the United States. "The Americans say they are at war with terrorism and can take out their opponents on the battlefield," Knoops said. "But in a strictly formal sense, this argument does not stand up." A senior Muslim cleric in New Delhi, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, said U.S. troops could have easily captured bin Laden. "America is promoting jungle rule everywhere, whether in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan or Libya. People have remained silent for long but now it has crossed all limits." BURIAL AT SEA CONCERN Son Had, spokesman for Jema'ah Ansharut Tauhid, the Islamic group founded by Indonesian firebrand Abu Bakar Bashir, said it was clear that bin Laden had become a martyr. "In Islam, a man who died....in fighting for sharia will earn the highest title for mankind other than a prophet, that is a martyr. Osama is a fighter for Islam, for sharia." But for many Muslim leaders the greater concern was bin Laden's burial at sea, not land. His body was taken to an aircraft carrier where U.S. officials said it was buried at sea, according to Islamic rites. "That is not the Islamic way. The Islamic way is to bury the person in land (if he has died on land) like all other people," said Saudi Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Al-Obaikan, an adviser to the Saudi Royal Court. Amidhan, a member of Indonesia's Ulema Council (MUI), the highest Islamic authority in the world's biggest Muslim society, said he was more concerned about the burial that the killing. "Burying someone in the ocean needs extraordinary situation. Is there one?," he told Reuters. "If the U.S. can't explain that, then it appears just like dumping an animal and that means there is no respect for the man ... and what they did can incite more resentment among Osama's supporters." (Additional reporting by Jeff Mason in Washington, Michael Perry in Sydney, Alistair Scrutton in New Delhi and Olivia Rondonwu in Jakarta, Aaron Gray-Block in Amsterdam; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani) World Osama bin Laden Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (4) grantrl78 wrote: some human animals don’t deserve the due process of law. May 04, 2011 3:08am EDT -- Report as abuse otnavus wrote: It really is impossible to please everyone, isn’t it? May 04, 2011 3:13am EDT -- Report as abuse jamesd1234 wrote: Wah wah wah. The fact is the US got the intel and captured him, they can do with him what they wanted. He did afterall kill 3000 Americans. So to other countries, STF U. From Obama’s point of view, I think it would have benefitted him more if Osama Bin Laden were captured alive. Well maybe not because Americans would be screaming for blood and would be PO’d that Bin Laden wasn’t being waterboarded daily for info. 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