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Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated today that one of the main reasons why President Barack Obama has decided not to release death photos of terrorist Osama bin Laden is because he fears that the pictures will be photoshopped and used against the United States. Mr. Gates stated that the President believes that, should the photos be released, they will quickly be "misused" in order to drive anti-American sentiment in the Middle East and elsewhere. Gates stated: "One of the things that I think concerns Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton and I is the risk not only of the pictures themselves...

On 8 October 1967, the Bolivian government, with the help of the CIA, captured the communist terrorist Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Bolivian President Rene Barrientos ordered that Guevara was to be executed immediately and this order was carried out the day following Guevara's capture. Both the Bolivian and American governments decided to release video proof of Guevara's death to dispel any rumors that Guevara was still alive. Click the link to see some of that video.

By James Oliphant and Lisa Mascaro May 3, 2011, 11:33 a.m. The White House on Tuesday continued to refuse to make public gruesome photos affirming Osama bin Laden’s death, despite calls from some corners among politicians, the families of 9/11 victims and some skeptics for it to do so. "There are sensitivities here in terms of the appropriateness of releasing photographs," said White House spokesman Jay Carney, who added that the photos of Bin Laden's corpse "could be inflammatory."

WHITE HOUSE RELEASES BIN LADEN DEATH PHOTO Tue May 03 2011 10:22:50 ET President Obama has decided to release at least one photo showing Osama Bin Laden's death. The images, being described as 'graphic', are bound to stir emotions in the east and the west, and will likely become the most viewed photographs in modern history. Developing...