Clinton and other Government officials telling Obama not to release OBL picture

This is no big surprise:

President Obama is increasingly doubtful that there’s a compelling reason to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, ABC News has learned.

There don’t seem to be many skeptics of bin Laden’s death in the Muslim world, with bin Laden’s wife having survived the attack to identify bin Laden’s death both to the Navy SEALs and Pakistani authorities.

Meanwhile, sources say, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are advising the president about concerns at the Pentagon and State Department that releasing a photograph could prompt a backlash against the US for killing bin Laden where one does not seem to currently exist.

via Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph; Obama Increasingly Concerned No Good Would Come from It – Political Punch.

It might just be because the Government is lying to the American people!

Then there is this:

Senior Pakistani security officials said Osama bin Laden’s daughter had confirmed her father was captured alive and shot dead by the US Special Forces during the first few minutes of the operation carried out at the huge compound in Bilal Town, Abbottabad.

Besides recovering four bullet-riddled bodies from the compound, Pakistani security agencies also arrested two women and six children, aged between 2 and 12 years, after American forces flew toward Afghanistan. Some reports suggest 16 people, including women and children, were arrested from the house, most of them Arab nationals.

A Pakistani security source told Al Arabiya that Bin Laden family members had been transported to Rawalpindi, which is near Islamabad. He added, “They are now under treatment in the military hospital of Rawalpindi, where they have been transported in an helicopter.” A source told Al Arabiya that Bin Laden’s had been injured either in her leg or her shoulder. – alarabiya.net

I’d go read the rest of that; but I will give you a word of warning —- that is an Arab propaganda paper and it is reporting some pretty outlandish stuff about the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Again, As I have written on here, since the news of Bin Laden’s supposed death; until the United States Government releases the ACTUAL photo of Osama Bin Laden’s dead corpse — I will not believe that this man is actually dead. I believe this to be a political ruse for the Government to justify ending the war on terror and to give Obama something to brag about so that he can be relected in 2012. The United States Government has a track record of lying to the American people and I simply will not accept the story given to the State-Run Media in this Country.

Unlike the Socialist left in this Country, my mistrust of this Government is not partisan based, I did not trust this Government when George W. Bush was President; and I cannot and will not trust this Government, with President Barack Obama as President. This Government is not beyond lying for the sake of Empire and Politics and I will not accept the lies that the media chooses to feed the serfs.

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