New details have emerged on how US navy SEALs gave Osama bin Laden a ‘blunt’ sea burial to end his myth, after they killed the al-Qaeda chief during a raid in Pakistan's garrison town of Abbottabad.

The US navy SEALs planned disposal of bin Laden's body on the basis on a similar burial they carried out for Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a top al-Qaeda leader in East Africa, in 2009.

“But, US deputy national security advisor John Brennan did call up a former Saudi intelligence official, asking him whether the country was interested in taking the body of bin Laden as his relatives were there and once he was a citizen of Saudi Arabia. However, there was no positive response from the other side," The New Yorker magazine reported.

"All along, the SEALs had planned to dump bin Laden's corpse into the sea — a blunt way of ending the bin Laden myth," it said.

Nabhan's corpse was flown to a ship in the Indian Ocean and was given proper Muslim rites before being thrown overboard.

In the case of bin Laden's corpse, flip-wing V-22 Osprey flew the body from a US base in Afghanistan's Bagram to USS Carl Vinson—a thousand-foot-long nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sailing in the Arabian Sea, off the Pakistani coast – in another violation of Islamabad's airspace.

Once the body reached Carl Vinson, it was washed, wrapped in a white burial shroud, weighted, and then slipped inside a bag.

The process was done ‘in strict conformance with Islamic precepts and practices,’ Brennan later told reporters in Washington.

The report said that Amal al-Fatah, bin Laden's fifth wife, was screaming in Arabic.

"She motioned as if she was going to charge; the SEAL lowered his sights and shot her once, in the calf. Fearing that one or both women were wearing suicide jackets, he stepped forward, wrapped them in a bear hug, and drove them aside.”

"He would almost certainly have been killed had they blown themselves up, but by blanketing them he would have absorbed some of the blast and potentially saved the two SEALs behind him. In the end, neither woman was wearing an explosive vest," the report said.

Before the mission commenced, the SEALs had created a checklist of code words that had a Native American theme.

Each code word represented a different stage of the mission: leaving Jalalabad, entering Pakistan, approaching the compound, and so on. ‘Geronimo’ was to signify that bin Laden had been found, it said.

The Black Hawks, each of which had two pilots and a crewman from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, or the Night Stalkers, had been modified to mask heat, noise, and movement; the copters' exteriors had sharp, flat angles and were covered with radar-dampening ‘skin.’

Once the raid was over, four SEALs scoured the second floor, plastic bags in hand, collecting flash drives, CDs, DVDs, and computer hardware from the room, which had served, in part, as bin Laden's makeshift media studio.

The SEALs also found an archive of digital pornography. "We find it on all these guys, whether they're in Somalia, Iraq, or Afghanistan," the special-operations officer said.

Bin Laden's gold-threaded robes, worn during his video addresses, was hung behind a curtain in the media room, the report said.