White House Officials Debate Releasing Photographs of Bin Laden’s Corpse
02 May 2011 | 
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ABC News - 02 May, 2011
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.
For more on the raid that killed bin Laden, see my Good Morning America report:
(original link - video)