Court: US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps
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A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the US government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by US commandos.
The three-judge panel of the US Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington turned down an appeal from Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the images. The court concluded that the photos used to conduct facial recognition analysis could reveal classified intelligence methods, and that images could trigger violence against American citizens. (AP)
