The White House is debating whether or not it will release photos of Osama Bin Laden's corpse.
Officials say they have pictures of the Al Qaeda terror leader's dead body, ABC News reported Monday, and "there's no doubt it's him."
However, because they are disturbing images, the Obama administration is uncertain if it would be okay to make them public.
Officials said Monday that DNA evidence shows the body is in fact Bin Laden's, but suggest releasing a photo of his body may be necessary to quiet critics.
U.S. officials are balancing that skepticism with the sensitivities that might be inflamed by showing images they say they have of the dead al-Qaida leader and video of his burial at sea. Still, it appeared likely that photographic evidence would be produced.
"We are going to do everything we can to make sure that nobody has any basis to try to deny that we got Osama bin Laden," John Brennan, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser, said Monday. He said the U.S. will "share what we can because we want to make sure that not only the American people but the world understand exactly what happened."
Tellingly, an al-Qaida spokesman, in vowing vengeance against America, called him a martyr, offering no challenge to the U.S. account of his death.
