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# Barack Obama: photographs of Osama bin Laden's body will not be released
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## US President Barack Obama has decided not to release graphic photographs
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of Osama bin Laden's body to the public because he felt they could incite
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violence and be used as an al-Qaeda propaganda tool.
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TelegraphPlayer-8493990
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11:15PM BST 04 May 2011
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Follow the latest news with Osama bin Laden killed: live
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In deciding not to make public the pictures of the corpse, Obama resisted
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arguments that to do so could counter skeptics who have argued there is no
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proof [Osama bin Laden][1] is dead.
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Quoting Obama from an interview conducted with CBS, White House spokesman Jay
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Carney said: "I think that given the graphic nature of these photos, it would
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create some national security risk.
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"It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who
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was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional
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violence.
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"As a propaganda tool, we don't think that a photograph in and of itself is
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going to make any difference.
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"There are going be some folks who deny it. The fact of the matter is, you
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will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again."
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The decision not to release photos followed intense debate within the Obama
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administration. CIA Director Leon Panetta had said on Tuesday the pictures
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would be released.
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