Offhand, do you remember what photos that Obama did NOT release at the beginning of his term ? I know it upset democrats .. me too, I got over it, I began to ... think that maybe they could be right.. maybe the photos 'would' inflame .. but darnit I don't remember what they were? Were they torture photos ? ... anyway, now we are reading this.
Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph; Obama Increasingly Concerned No Good Would Come from It
May 04, 2011 7:07 AM
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.
........Personally, I don't care anymore. I did the first time, back in Jan. 2009..Now, I have learned that no matter what .. the same ones who believe nothing and who believe every crazy notion out there will still do that. Nothing would change either way. Just like the birth certificate issue. What do you think ?
By Jessica Mintz TACOMA, Wash | Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:22am EDT
TACOMA, Wash (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant is due to go on trial on Friday charged with murdering unarmed civilians and taking body parts for war trophies as ringleader of a rogue platoon that terrorized villagers in Afghanistan.
The court-martial of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, 26, marks the climax of an 18-month investigation of the most egregious case of atrocities U.S. military personnel are accused of committing during a decade of war in Afghanistan.
Pentagon officials have said the misconduct exposed by the case, which began as a probe into hashish use within Gibbs' unit, had damaged America's image around the globe.
Published photographs showing two fellow soldiers posing with the bloodied corpse of an Afghan boy they had just killed have drawn comparisons to the inflammatory Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq in 2004.
Gibbs, from Billings, Montana, is charged with three counts of premeditated murder, as well as cutting fingers off dead bodies and beating a fellow soldier who had alerted superiors to widespread drug abuse within their unit.
Charging documents said he was found in possession of "finger bones, leg bones and a tooth taken from Afghan corpses."
If convicted of all charges, Gibbs faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Prosecutors have cast him as the chief instigator among five infantrymen from the 5th Stryker Brigade accused of slaying civilians in random killings staged to look like legitimate combat casualties in Kandahar province.
Seven others soldiers were charged with various lesser offenses, ranging from assault for opening fire at civilians to using illegal drugs. Most have already reached plea deals.
About 30 witnesses are expected to testify during the court-martial, slated to run through next week at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, according to Army spokesman Major Christopher Ophardt.
The first day of proceedings will likely be devoted to selecting a jury panel and handling procedural motions.
(Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Jerry Norton and Paul Simao)
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