Obama Weighs Release of Photographs to Show Bin Laden Dead

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Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, the Obama administration may need to prove it by showing photos of the world’s most infamous terrorist after he was shot in the head.

“They need to release some verifiable information that it was bin Laden,” said Brian Katulis, a Middle East and South Asia scholar at the Center for American Progress in Washington who visited Pakistan in February. “You won’t convince everybody, but you need to marginalize the conspiracy theorists.”