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.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Meanwhile the US press went through a FOIA case to force the release of photos of dead US soldiers. Time Magazine ran photos of a dead naked American being dragged through the streets of Somalia (and the ONLY thing they altered was airbrushing out his genitals).
The JFK assassination film is public record and aired on television without warning.
RELEASE THE PICTURE.
TRANSPARENCY
Bin Laden's Villa Lacked Internet, Phone Service
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I think we can be excused for being skeptical of the media and WH accounts.
Show the friggin' pictures. Those who don't want to look won't.
I guess there is some Islamic rule about not releasing the photo of a dead, shot, murdering PseudoNazi s.o.b. who targets women and children and other civilians because they are unbelievers (sarcasm).
Glad to here they gave him an “Islamic Funeral” (More Sarcasm).
At least now he sleeps with the fishes (No sarcasm).
Adding to the mess.........on the sketch of the (supposed) compound, a satellite dish is shown.
Or, it’s a ufo that is tilted on the roof.
Or, sumthin’.
The compound has been burned down. There is NO evidence....absolutely none. All the military are under the command of Obama. They will do as told or be shot.
That’s a silver dish...Osama used it for sun-tanning.
I’m talking about the sketch I saw on one of the threads...
And I am MOST concerned for our military. They MUST do as told, they MUST keep their mouths shut...they DO need our prayers, now more than EVER!
Nope, thats the fake one thats been around since last year.
OH! Ok, I see....thanks!
I remember when we first went to Afghanistan. The Northern Army was going head on. They were massacrering Osama's front line.
Osama, via one of his tapes, told his Pakistani goons to go back to Pakistan and wait till another day.
I think you're going to see a huge flow into Afghanistan.
Where's Karzai??
After the shooting he was probably down to about six foot one.
“Quit wasting time and release them. We are all grown up, idiots”
No chit!! I am planning to eat a tuna sandwich as I browse the photo gallery. Its no more gruesome than watching your countrymen jump screaming to their deaths from the Trade Tower.
Does this mean Osama has become a Corpsman???
Nope. Some poor Pakistani will be able to move into it, so it’s now a Federal housing Administration project.
Make a decision one way or the other and quit straddling the damn fence!
(the decision should have already been made, IMO)
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