Soon after the Abbottabad raid, US President Barack Obama said he would not authorize release of any images of Osama bin Laden's corpse, saying it would create a security risk.
In a midnight raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, US Navy Seals killed the Al Qaeda chief and several others, before leaving in helicopters carrying bin Laden's corpse, which was later thrown into the Arabian Sea from a US naval ship at an unknown location.
