US Special Operations Command ordered all photos of Osama bin Laden’s body destroyed

Conspiracy theories ... Osama bin Laden pictured in his hide-out in Afghanistan. 

A NEWLY-RELEASED email shows that 11 days after the killing of terror leader Osama bin Laden, the US military’s top special operations officer ordered subordinates to destroy any photographs of the al-Qaeda founder’s corpse or turn them over to the CIA. 


The email was obtained by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch
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Top brass ... US Navy Admiral William H McRaven and US President Barrack Obama. 

It shows that Admiral William McRaven, who heads the US Special Operations Command, told military officers on May 13, 2011, that photos of Bin Laden’s remains should have been sent to the CIA or already destroyed.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said the email “is a smoking gun, revealing both contempt for the rule of law and the American people’s right to know.”

Bin Laden was killed by a special operations team in Pakistan 11 days earlier.
McRaven’s order came 10 days after The Associated Press asked for the photos and other documents under the US Freedom of Information Act.

The news of the email is hardly likely to sway the opinions of conspiracy theorists, who make various claims that the al-Qaeda leader was shot years before the Pakistan operation, or is in fact still living.

The US dumped bin Laden’s body at sea within 24 hours of his death, partly to prevent any one site becoming a shrine for would-be terrorists.

According to Wikipedia, Republican senator Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma claimed he had viewed “gruesome” images of bin Laden’s corpse.