Sounds suspicious to me. And Muslims are claiming burial at sea has little to do with Islam. The announcement is probably done to incite violent response from Muslims against the USA. Warfiteers would like nothing better.
When ordinary people die in an accident or are murdered, their families are asked to confirm identity and claim the body. I think we're relying too much on the Gladio Gang telling the truth in this instance. They aren't interested in truth.
Osama bin Laden probably died of kidney failure years ago, or was murdered as Benazir Bhutto said to David Frost. OBL was a bogeyman used by the military-industrial complex to beef-up their corporate bottom lines for years. OBL was a rabid anticommunist and CIA/MI6 asset ever since the war on secular socialism in Central Asia began in the 1980s. He was always one of their's.
[url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ivt4LyhJzqXFgshGZWOWw... and all witnesses killed in raid apparently[/url]
Translation: We found it increasingly difficult to fake videotapes of a dead person threatening the "free world". And so we're announcing OBL's death several years post-mortem. God save the military-industrial complex and fossil fuel industry.