He's been chucked in the sea, mainly because the Saudis wouldn't take him back to bury him on home soil, as they have more than enough attacks from Al-Qaeda cells as it is, and don't need another 'holy' shrine, already having Makkah and Medina, thanks. Same reason why Afghanistan wouldn't want him - he wasn't a national and would have no right to be buried there and they sure as hell wouldn't want followers trekking into the country to cause more mayhem. Pakistan could've buried him, of course, but presumably their government - amid expressing enormous surprise that he should be living a mere kilometre from a military training ground and within taxi distance of their capital city - also didn't feel a burial there was appropriate.
About the oil business: look, Saudi Arabia is currently top of the pops, followed by (gasp!) CANADA in proven oilfield capacity. There follow, all with less than 10% of the world's overall capacity: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, Venezuela, Russia, Libya and Nigeria. The USA lies around 14th in the oil hierarchy of less than 100 oil-producing nations. If you want to keep playing on the Internet, spray your squeaky locks with WD-40, use a variety of toiletries and keep the wheels of pretty much every industry known to the civilized world turning, you have to accept that it is Big Daddy Oil that'll do the job for you. Wind turbines will provide a little bit of local power at enormous cost per unit, but they ain't gonna be worth a tap in greasing your hairstyle or running the trucks that bring you your household goods, or in helping to manufacture them.
There are massive gasfields to be found in passive rim areas of tectonic plates (see, I knew my 20 years in the oil biz would pay off one day), a leading contender of which is BRAZIL. Nothing to do with Islam and mad mullahs, just like Canada and its oil.
Bin Laden's death is hugely symbolic, especially to those who survived 9/11, to those caught up in the horrible embassy bombings in Africa, to the Bali bombings, to the innocents killed in Afghanistan as he was pursued there, and, in case some of you have developed short-term memory loss - our very own 7/7. I imagine that those who get up each day and strap on their prosthetic arms and legs, reach for their white sticks, or gaze at photographs of dead children, husbands and wives will not be the least worried about the man's death being met with glee. The architect of their pain has been brought to justice, in a way that he no doubt considered would be, eventually, inevitable.
