Diver to Hunt for Osama's Body

California salvage diver wants to be really sure we got him
By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 12, 2011 10:50 AM CDT
Diver Bill Warren to Scour Arabian Sea for Osama bin Laden's Body
This April 1998 file photo shows Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.   (AP File Photo)

Osama bin Laden may be sleeping with the fishes, but he's a wanted man still: A California diver Fox News describes as "eccentric" is going to scour the Arabian Sea until he finds—and photographs—the corpse of the notorious terrorist. For the bargain price of $400,000, 59-year-old Bill Warren is going to rent a ship and a remote-controlled submarine for two weeks next month. "I'm doing it because I am a patriotic American who wants to know the truth. I do it for the world," Warren says.

"The Obama administration should have released the photo, like we did with Billy the Kid, or [John] Dillinger, or even Saddam Hussein," Warren tells the New York Post. "I have a Russian girlfriend, and she tells me that over there, in intelligence circles, they don't believe bin Laden's really dead." (More Osama bin Laden stories.)

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