Osama’s face: Will we see it?

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White House officials are concerned that releasing photographs of Osama bin Laden’s bloodied body could be “inflammatory” and invite a violent backlash from the al Qaeda leader’s supporters, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday.

“It’s fair to say that it’s a gruesome photograph,” Carney said. White House officials are deciding whether hard evidence of the killing would serve a purpose beyond the harm it could cause “not just domestically, but globally,” Carney said.

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