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US Attorney General Eric Holder: “His killing was appropriate”
President Barack Obama has decided that photos of the dead Osama Bin Laden should not be released.
US officials have been discussing whether to publish pictures of Bin Laden’s body to counter conspiracy theories that he did not die.
But the White House has been concerned that the “gruesome” images could inflame sensitivities.
The al-Qaeda leader was shot dead in a raid on Monday by US special forces in northern Pakistan.
The BBC’s Paul Adams in Washington says that President Obama has clearly decided that releasing the photos is not worth the risk.
Mr Obama revealed his decision during an interview with CBS television’s 60 Minutes programme, the network said in a statement.
The president said “he won’t release post-mortem images of Osama Bin Laden taken to prove his death”.
It came as US officials began to comb through computer hard-drives, mobile phones and USB sticks found during the US Navy Seals raid in Abbottabad.
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No release of Bin Laden photos