White House Officials Debate Releasing Photographs of Bin Laden’s Corpse

ABC News ^ | 5-2-11 | Jake Tapper

[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.

[ari-freedom]

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

[Brad’s Gramma]

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

[truth_seeker]

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

An advantage of incumbency.

[worst-case scenario]

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

[justlurking]

“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.

[justlurking]

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.

[mcshot]

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.

[mas cerveza por favor]

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

[tet68]

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

[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.

[tet68]

etll = Tell

I am really exhausted.

[Gilbo_3]

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...