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White House Officials Debate Releasing Photographs of Bin Laden’s Corpse
ABC News ^ | 5-2-11 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 05/02/2011 11:30:44 AM PDT by Justaham

The Obama administration has photographs of Osama bin Laden’s dead body and officials are debating what to do with them and whether they should be released to the public, officials tell ABC News.

“There’s no doubt it’s him,” says a US official who has seen the pictures and also reminds us that OBL was 6’4”.

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: they’re 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 Hussein’s dead sons Uday and Qusay Hussain but not until after they’d been touched up by a mortician, making them look not quite real.

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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: foia; osama; osamabinladen; osamaphotos; transparency
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To: NWFLConservative

so if you were prez, you would not have went after OBL?


101 posted on 05/02/2011 12:58:25 PM PDT by ari-freedom (All we are saying....is give the military a chance)
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To: Mr. Silverback

COOL!!!! They can live in the Pakistani Projects?


102 posted on 05/02/2011 1:05:32 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Where do YOU stand in your relationship with God???)
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To: Carling

“By withholding information, Obama and his team can drag out the story of Osama’s death into the summer.”

An advantage of incumbency.


103 posted on 05/02/2011 1:14:37 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: AU72

If Al Qaeda announces the death, we can probably count it as actual.


104 posted on 05/02/2011 1:23:28 PM PDT by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: Justaham
“There’s no doubt it’s him,” says a US official who has seen the pictures and also reminds us that OBL was 6’4”.

Well, that settles it.

I guess that means I'm dead, too.

105 posted on 05/02/2011 1:24:14 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: OldDeckHand
By the number of athletic tracks, there seems to be pretty dense concentration of schools - both secondary and collegiate. There's even a golf course less than a mile away. It's all remarkably "western".

I read that this town was a popular place for military officers to retire.

106 posted on 05/02/2011 1:27:15 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: indylindy

We watched some of our Countrymen jump from the two towers and encounter a brutal sudden stop. I’d feel a lot better seeing OBL, the planner, with a hole above his left eye and loss of skull integrity.


107 posted on 05/02/2011 1:27:15 PM PDT by mcshot ("...of the people, by the people, for the people..." but we aren't "his people".)
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To: Justaham

I hope they do not forget to flatten the layers this time.


108 posted on 05/02/2011 1:33:20 PM PDT by mas cerveza por favor
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To: skeeter

Release the pictures, I can hardly wait for the
“Tickle Me” Obama pix.


109 posted on 05/02/2011 6:59:38 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

I want to see the cartoon one of Osama wearing a
big black turban with a lit fuze coming out of the
top of it.

Correction: Tickle me Osama although it’s hard to
etll them apart.


110 posted on 05/02/2011 7:02:45 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

etll = Tell

I am really exhausted.


111 posted on 05/02/2011 7:04:05 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Myynnxx
nice try...the 'entire US military' knows the same things that we do via whitehut press releases and msm filtering...

i have yet to read/see anything being published by the military...

112 posted on 05/02/2011 7:42:43 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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