No One Wants To Bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

[MADem]

4. They've checked neighboring states, too--no joy.

This puts them down to a few options:

Send him to MD; to the metro/DC area, where perhaps the uncle can sort something out.

Box his ass up and send him to Russia, as some irate bystanders on TV are suggesting.

The Bin Ladin solution, which is prescribed by the Qu'ran in cases where there is concern that the body could be dug up and beaten or abused in mocking fashion--a burial at sea. This is not optimal, but it's probably the best solution, because there are plenty of Muslims who believe that because of his actions before his death, he should not be buried with his face towards Meccah in any event, owing to his crimes. If I were the uncle, this would be my choice, and I'd do it very quietly, perhaps asking the Russian Embassy for some help in obtaining transportation out to sea--if the Russians have a vessel that's a few days away, out at sea, maybe visiting Havana or something, they could either put into port here or have a small craft take the body out to them and they could take it to deep water and give it the old dump-er-oo.