May 5, 2011 8:43 AM

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US President Barack Obama says images of Osama Bin Laden's body will not be released

The US President Barack Obama has said the pictures of Osama Bin Laden's dead body will not be released. He said this in an interview to a news channel in Washington. President Obama said, he would not release the post-mortem images of bin Laden taken to prove his death. The interview would be telecast on Sunday. CIA Director Leon Panetta had said earlier that the pictures were gruesome and a final decision on whether to release them would be taken by the White House. President Obama will participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Ground Zero in New York today to mark the killing of Osama Bin Laden. The US Attorney General Eric Holder has defended the legality of the operation against Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Justifying it as an act of national self defence, he said, it is lawful to target an enemy commander in the field. Intelligence agencies combing through computers and storage devices found at Osama Bin Laden's compound expect to find a gold mine of data that could expose terror plots, the location of Al Qaeda members and funding sources.

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