David Cameron says al-Qaeda leader "must have had an extensive support network in Pakistan" in Commons statement. The White House is facing calls to release images of the al-Qaeda chief to prove that he is dead. One of Barack Obama's most senior advisers said that a photograph of Osama bin Laden's corpse would be released. Leon Panetta, the outgoing director of the CIA, said he did not believe there was "any question that ultimately a photograph would be presented to the public".
Mr Panetta, who will shortly move jobs to become the US Secretary of Defence, was asked in an interview with NBC if the pictures taken after bin Laden's assassination were too "gruesome" for publication, given the risk of inflaming those sympathetic to the late al Qaeda leader.
"There were concerns and there were questions that had to be debated about just exactly question kind of impact would these photos have," Mr Panetta said, according to a transcript published before the interview was broadcast.
"But the bottom line is that, you know, we got Bin Laden and I think we have to reveal to the rest of the world the fact that we were able to get him and kill him." (read more)
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