Title: White House Officials Debate Releasing Photographs of Bin Laden’s Corpse Source:
ABC News URL Source:http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalp ... hs-of-bin-ladens-corpse-1.html Published:May 2, 2011 Author:Jake Tapper Post Date:2011-05-02 14:55:06 by Hondo68 Keywords:skepticism throughout the worl, brains and blood visible, officials are debating Views:7765 Comments:11
The Obama administration has photographs of Osama bin Ladens dead body and officials are debating what to do with them and whether they should be released to the public, officials tell ABC News.
Theres no doubt its him, says a US official who has seen the pictures and also reminds us that OBL was 64.
The argument for releasing them: to ensure that the public knows and can appreciate that he's dead. There is of course skepticism throughout the world that the US government claim that it killed bin Laden is true.
The argument against releasing the pictures: theyre gruesome. He has a massive head wound above his left eye where he took bullet, with brains and blood visible.
In July 2003, the US government released photographs of Saddam Husseins dead sons Uday and Qusay Hussain but not until after theyd been touched up by a mortician, making them look not quite real.
For more on the raid that killed bin Laden, see my Good Morning America report: