Treasure hunter located bin laden
Talking to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Warren says he has no doubt about where Osama is:
I've located where they threw him away. I'm the only one with this information. He's 200 miles to the west of the Indian city of Surat.
Warren—who claims he has discovered more than 200 shipwrecks during his career as a treasure-hunter—says that bin Laden's body is still at that same location, deep under water. His thought is that, since the Navy weighted down the bag, the body hasn't moved from where it was dropped. He is now trying to rent Russian deep diving equipment to locate his payload, and to conduct DNA tests once he finds him.
At least, that's what he believes. He says he pinpointed the drop point from photos recently released by the US Navy.
Warren is now in Azerbaijan, apparently working for their government in a contract to locate some old ships. But he is ready to start the diving for Osama's body bag: he says he's aiming at starting the mission on June 1, and that he may be able to find the body in "under a week." He also claims that the search would last a maximum of three months. He declares that his only fear is that the US Government would kill him or sink his boat.
Warren is now searching for $200,000 to finance the whole operation (Bill, I suggest Kickstarter). He wouldn't have needed that money had he located the Trinidad, the famous Spanish ship loaded with Aztec gold that sunk in the coast of California in 1540. Warren has repeatedly tried to locate that treasure, once in 1976 and then again in 1987. Back then he claimed he had located the Trinidad, but obviously he didn't.
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The same could probably be true with Bin Laden's body. It's highly unlikely that, even if he were right about the location—and again, there's very little chance he is—he would be able to find a body bag in the bottom of the deep sea.
Warren says he is doing this because he doesn't "believe the Obama administration" and he wants to have proof that it is really his body. But, if he doesn't believe President Obama and the United States Navy, why would the body be down there at all? If he thinks that they are lying, the most logical thing is to believe that they never buried the body at sea.
But who knows, maybe Bill will prove himself right this time. Or maybe the body will not be there because Osama bin Laden is alive and well, playing cards and drinking mai tais with Elvis and Marilyn, in that secret government paradise island in the middle of the Pacific.
"I've located where they threw him away," Warren told Spanish newspaper El Mundo. "I'm the only one with this information."
Warren believes the late Al Qaeda leader's body has stayed put since the Navy disposed of it at sea last year, since they weighted down the bag containing bin Laden's remains, the International Business Times reported.
After studying satellite photos released by the Pentagon of the 'burial at sea,' Warren has said he and his team could find the body in a week or less. All he needs is $200,000 to finance the operation, the Business Times reported.
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"We do this because we are patriotic Americans and feel that President Obama failed to provide the proof," the treasure hunter told TMZ.
Warren hopes to start his search on June 1, and doesn't expect it to last more than three months, Global Grind reported — unless, of course, the US Government sinks his boat or assassinates him.
Warren, who boasts that he has discovered 200 shipwrecks over the course of his career, is currently living in Azerbaijan, where he is apparently working for the local government to locate old ships, according to Gizmodo.
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Warren also has a history of chasing grandiose sunken treasures: he has repeatedly tried to find the Trinidad, a Spanish ship filled with Aztec gold that sunk off the coast of California in 1540. He has made several failed attempts at a Trinidad discovery — in 1976 and again in 1987 — and at the time he claimed he had located the Trinidad, according to Gizmodo.
Bill plans to take a film crew along to document his hunt for bin Laden, TMZ reported. We're looking forward to the reality TV series, if nothing else.
Warren was speaking to Spanish newspaper El Mundo and claimed that his find was genuine.
'I've located where they threw him away. I'm the only one with this information. He's 200 miles to the west of the Indian city of Surat.'
The Americans had claimed that bin Laden's body was buried at sea to stop fanatics from constructing a 'memorial' for the former al Qaeda leader.
Warren claims he's been responsible for the discovery of over 200 shipwrecks and that he's now trying to secure diving equipment, and other technology to authenticate his latest find.
The treasure hunter maintains that this was the initial site where bin Laden was buried and added that he's 'a week away' from recovering the cadaver.
Website Gizmodo said Warren is currently looking for financiers to back him with $200,000 as operational costs.
As we all know, or at least were told according to some conspiracists, the body of Osama Bin Laden was taken aboard the USS Carl Vinson and dumped into the North Arabian Sea less than 24 hours after a team of Navy SEALS stormed Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan, killing the Al Qaeda leader. But that’s about all we know. No details of the location were ever released.
However Bill Warren, using hi-tech equipment and several boats which he says will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, claims he has what it takes to find the body of one of the most wanted men in history.
‘We do this because we are patriotic Americans and feel that President Obama failed to provide the proof,’ he told TMZ.
What do you think, is it possible for Warren to locate the body of Bin Laden in the vast Arabian Sea? Or is this just a publicity stunt?
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