Bin Laden death: Photos show aftermath of raid

The disturbing images, the release of which has not been sanctioned by the White House, give a sense of the extreme violence employed by US Navy Seals as they stormed through the compound in the early hours of Monday. Two of the men lie in pools of congealed blood; a third lies prone with his arms flung over his head. Around are scattered hints of life before the Americans struck: computer cables, bedding, a tin mug and a plastic gun.

The photos may also explain why the White House is refusing to release a similar image of Bin Laden: if it is nearly as graphic, it could provide an incendiary rallying point to America's Islamist enemies. Security in New York and Washington, as well as at US bases and embassies round the world, have been stepped up in case of al-Qaeda retaliation over the killing.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-05-05-bin-laden-death-photos-show-aftermath-of-raid

this isn't the Al Qaida of 2001. It's been years since AQ exploded into tens of different groups. Years since bin Laden has been very active, perhaps. Someone somewhere might try to get some mileage out of it but the threat after his death today isn't what it would have been in 2001.

"Benjamin Ferencz, an American lawyer who was a US prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials and who lives in New York state, asked whether the killing was justifiable self-defence or premeditated illegal assassination. He would have preferred he had been captured and put on trial.

Ferencz (92) said: 'The picture I get is that a bunch of highly trained, heavily armed soldiers find an old guy in pyjamas and shot him in the chest and head and that borders, without access to more facts, on murder.' He added: 'Even Göring had a right to trial.'"

But do you have a link for that?

Edit:

Never mind, I found it. I should try to use google news more often....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/04/osama-bin-laden-photos-raid