Bin Laden's body buried at sea after raid in Pakistan

The United States has reportedly buried the body of Osama bin Laden at sea, after killing him in a surprise military raid in Pakistan.
The notorious al Qaeda leader died Sunday, U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed in a late night-address, when U.S. forces attacked a fortified compound in a town about 100 kilometres north of Islamabad where bin Laden had been located.
Intelligence sources said the CIA pinpointed bin Laden's location and Obama gave the order to undertake the early-morning raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
A small team of Navy seals flew to the compound via helicopter and engaged bin Laden in a fatal firefight.
U.S. officials said bin Laden was killed by a bullet to the head, after a firefight that ensued when the terrorist leader and his guards resisted the attack.
The compound was located less than a kilometre from a military academy that trains top officers in the Pakistani army.
Hamid Gul, a former Pakistani intelligence chief, said he found it "a bit amazing" that bin Laden could possibly be living in the area without authorities being aware of his presence.
A Washington Bureau Chief Paul Workman said it appears that the U.S. tracked bin Laden to his final location over a period of a few months.
"Barack Obama went on television last night to say that sometime last year in August, he received word of a lead on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden -- he put it as deep in Pakistan, inside Pakistan," Workman told CTV's Canada AM from Washington on Monday morning.
"It was pursued, finally there were a number of high-level meetings and yesterday Obama authorized the attack on this compound."
After bin Laden was killed, U.S. forces took custody of his remains and officials have privately told reporters he was buried at sea.
An official who spoke to The Associated Press said the decision was made to bury bin Laden at sea because Islamic tradition calls for a speedy burial. It was also decided that it would bee too difficult to find a country willing to accept the al Qaeda leader's remains.
When Obama went on television late Sunday to inform the public of bin Laden's death, he did not provide details on what happened to his remains other than confirming that the U.S. "took custody of his body."
Some TV stations in Pakistan and Afghanistan aired pictures of a dead man's face, whom the stations identified as that of bin Laden.