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America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced it will a photo of the dead body of Osama Bin Laden. CIA Leon Panetta told reporters a postmortem photo of the Al Qaeda leader be released at some time in the , but said the date would be for the White House to . He told NBC News: "The bottom is that, you know, we got Bin Laden and I think we have to reveal to the of the world the fact that we were able to get him and kill him.” He added: "The [U.S.] government obviously has been talking about how to do this, but I don't think there's any question that ultimately a photograph would be presented to the ." A White House spokesman said the photograph may be too "gruesome" to .

Bin Laden was shot and killed by U.S. forces in a raid on his hideout mansion of Islamabad, Pakistan. Biometric measurements were taken of his face and DNA tests were to make sure it was America’s most man. His body was buried at sea after he was shot. Within hours of U.S. President Barack Obama announcing Bin Laden’s death, a photo emerged in the world’s press of his face. Even though it was created in a photo editing programme, many newspapers put it on their cover, believing it to be real. The CIA wants the real image of Bin Laden's body to be published to help convince those who his death. There are already many conspiracy theories popping that say Bin Laden isn’t really dead.

 

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