White House split over release of corpse photo

Daily Mail: President Barack Obama is reluctant to make public images of the body because it is bloodied and badly wounded, and a perceived lack of respect for the dead could lead to a backlash.

But CIA Director Leon Panetta says there has never been any doubt that ultimately a photograph of the Al Qaeda leader would be released to the public.

In the absence of any pictorial evidence that Bin Laden is dead, some have claimed that he was not killed at all.