US president decides against releasing images of al-Qaeda leader's body as some raise concerns over legality of raid.
Barack Obama, the US president, has told an American television channel that he has decided not to release photos showing the body of Osama Bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, after he was killed by US commandos.
Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said Obama had consulted members of his national security team before making the decision.
Carney said that in the interview with CBS, Obama had stressed it was important to keep photographic evidence from "floating around as incitement or propaganda tool".
"That is not who we are. We don't trot this stuff out as trophies," Obama was quoted as saying in the interview for the channel's "60 Minutes" programme. (False- see Saddam Hussein)
It was lawful to target bin Laden because he was the enemy commander in the field, and the operation was conducted in a way that was consistent with US laws and values, he said, adding that it was a "kill or capture mission".- Eric Holder
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