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If you don't already know (referring to the title), the US's most notoriously hated terrorist is/was known as Osama Bin Laden (an opinion, but like I've stated, pretty notorious). And now in current events, the U.S. supreme court is struggling to decide whether or not to release pictures of him prior to his sea-burial.

According to Judicial Watch Attorney, Michael Bekesha, there are 52 images of him that were taken before his burial. Not sure if any of you remember, but there was a leaked photo of him dead after he was shot in his hideout (pretty gruesome). To me, that was complete nonsense. If the U.S. supreme court/executive office is having such trouble with deciding whether or not to release sane pictures, it's hard to believe that someone of military authority would release such a terrible picture.

Despite the 'leaked picture', Bin Laden underwent traditional Muslim pre-burial procedures and was respectively buried (dropped?) somewhere in the ocean.

Now, I've seen two dead people in my life. First one was my grandma. I was little and didn't know much about what was going on, and trusted my mom in that she was just 'in a deep sleep'. The second was my other grandmother– before her funeral, there was a seeing of her in the casket for everyone to say their last goodbyes, etc. Now, when I was there, everyone was dressed nicely, acting respectively, and (obviously) upset. In addition to everyone there, so was my grandmother. She was in her finest clothes before she was buried ready to take on what many people (dis-including myself) call the afterlife.

So I'm thinking that his cultural/traditional Muslim burial procedures were something a little like that. So how bad can the pictures be?

That's just one side of it, however. Sadly, there are those 'modern day anarchists' all over society that will dispute Bin Laden's death despite any amount of proof displayed. Controversy will be arise, arguments will come, and a lot of people won't be happy.

In addition to internal chaos, there's the external (possibly internal, but more/less not location, per say) disputes. People of AlQueda/Muslim heritage might take it extremely offensively (can't speak for anyone) and will try to rebel however they can against the U.S. government.

Any which way you go about it, someone won't be happy. In fact, the White House released the following statement, assuming it would be a national security threat:



My opinion is for them to remain to authorized personnel. As much as I'd love to see the pictures myself, I'd rather just let them turn into public domain in the next 100 years.

What do you think?