Saturday, May 7, 2011

Your Weekend Wrap-up of the Doubts, Debates, and New Details of the Bin Laden Raid

This post first appeared on the ProPublica website.

More details, debates, and even doubts have continued to emerge about the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden this week.

We've been tracking the coverage with our reading guide. We're also got a weekend wrap-up for the major threads of this evolving story.
 

For the doubters (aka the Deathers)

In an online message that surfaced today, Al Qaeda confirmed that its founder was killed and warned that his death would not be in vain: "We will remain, God willing, a curse chasing the Americans and their agents, following them outside and inside their countries." US analysts have yet to verify the authenticity of the message.

The White House has announced it won't be releasing photos of bin Laden's body, citing the images' potential to incite violence or to be used as propaganda. At least one watchdog group has put in filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the federal government and has said it's prepared to suefor the photos.

Reuters, meanwhile, has bought several grisly photos of three of the other men who died in the raid at the compound. Beware: they're bloody.

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