What is the Reasoning here?:
White House will NOT release gruesome pictures of Bin Laden's mangled corpse
By Oliver Tree and Neil Sears
Last updated at 8:42 PM on 4th May 2011
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- President Obama has decided NOT to release dead Bin Laden pictures
- Taliban demands to see proof of Al Qaeda leader's death
- Three sets of photos taken - during raid, at Afghanistan airbase and at sea
- One report said he had a 'massive head wound above his left eye, with brains and blood visible'
The White House has decided not to release pictures of Bin Laden's corpse, it was announced tonight.
President Obama had been urged to show the world proof that the terror chief had been killed - and put an end to the wild conspiracy theories.
But tonight details of a pre recorded interview revealed he has decided not to publish the images
BUT From April 2009:
Barack Obama to release up to 2,000 photographs of prisoner abuse
President Barack Obama is to release up to 2,000 photographs of alleged abuse at American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in a move which will reignite the scandal surrounding Abu Ghraib prison in 2004.
And from December 2009:
U.S. lifts photo ban on military coffins
By Elisabeth Bumiller
Published: Monday, December 7, 2009
WASHINGTON — In a reversal of an 18-year-old military policy that critics said was hiding the ultimate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the news media will now be allowed to photograph the flag-draped coffins of America's war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States, but only if the families of the dead agree.
The decision, which Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Thursday, lifts a 1991 blanket ban on such photographs put in place under President George Bush. It chiefly affects coffins arriving from Iraq and Afghanistan that go through Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
Nice huh?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1382828/Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-picture-White-House-NOT-release-gruesome-photo.html#ixzz1LPnubLKz
