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英语文摘:Obama Will Not Release bin Laden Death Photo

Source:    2011-05-05   English BBS   Favorite  
But many other lawmakers, Republicans among them, support Mr. Obama’s decision.

Republican Mike Rogers is Chairman of the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. "If you are a sergeant in a town in Ghazni, Afghanistan and you are trying to get some local elder to cooperate about what is happening in your village, are you going to do it if this inflames?  We have a trophy of Osama bin Laden?  I worry about that," he said.

President Obama made a similar decision in May, 2009, when he reversed an earlier decision and decided against releasing photographs of the abuse of detainees at U.S. military prisons.  In that case, he also based his decision on the potential for the images to incite violence.

Mr. Obama is scheduled go to New York on Thursday, to lay a wreath at the National September 11 Memorial, on the site of the World Trade Center.  About 2,800 people were killed in 2001, when the 110-story twin towers were destroyed in an al-Qaida attack.

The president will not speak publicly at the event.  He will meet with the families of the victims and emergency workers who died that day.


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