Reply #17: I'm of decidedly mixed feelings. I do think there is some stricture

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in the Geneva Conventions (to which we are signatories) about pictorial images of enemies, but cannot remember if Geneva applies only to live captives or also to dead combatants.

Of course, if the pictures are released, we immediately lose any right whatsoever to complain any time our enemies release photographs of our dead, wounded or captured.

Set against that, I suppose releasing the photos might allay some skepticism and might even provide a tiny measure of closure to those whose lives OBL's actions hurt.

I say do not release them to the public at large.