Obama: Dead Bin Laden Photo Won’t Be Released; Photos Of Others Killed With Bin Laden Leak

President Barack Obama says the White House will not release a photo of Osama bin Laden’s body.

Obama made the remarks during an interview Wednesday with CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

The White House had been weighing the release of a photo, in part to offer proof that bin Laden was killed during a raid on his compound early Monday. However, officials had cautioned that the photo was gruesome and could be inflammatory.

U.S. forces stormed the compound in Pakistan where bin Laden was hiding, then shot and killed the al-Qaida leader.

Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons, according to a report by Reuters.

The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.

The official, who wished to remain anonymous, sold the pictures to Reuters.

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