US senator views 'grotesque' Osama bin Laden photographs

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Source: The Guardian

A US senator who was permitted to view secret photographs of Osama bin Laden's corpse has described "pretty grotesque" images of a badly mutilated body that leave no doubt the al-Qaida leader is dead.

Senator James Inhofe said he saw 15 pictures at the CIA headquarters in Virginia, some of which were taken immediately after Bin Laden was shot. They show the al-Qaida leader with large head wounds around the eye and ear. Inhofe described some of the pictures as "gruesome".

"One of the shots went through the ear and out through an eye socket, or through the eye socket and out through the ear and exploded, that was the kind of ordinance it was. That caused the brains to be hanging out of the eye socket," he told CNN.

Inhofe said that he had no doubt that the pictures were of Bin Laden, adding: "Absolutely no question about it. A lot of people out there say: 'I want to see the pictures,' but I've already seen them. That was him. He's gone. He's history."

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/12/bin-laden-dead-confirms-us-senator

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