Osama bin Laden was not armed when he was shot by U.S. special forces, said White, as in fact Pakistan House with additional pressure on Wednesday to explain how most wanted man the world was not safe so long in a town near the capital.
Washington is committed to "go back" helped Pakistan if Ben Laden escape a hunting man 10 years before being killed in a U.S. raid on its walls fortified the city of Abbottabad. Islamabad denied that he gave shelter to the al-Qaeda Chief.
The CIA has said that he did not in Pakistan in advance on the raid because she feared that bin Laden would be tipped off the coast, highlighting the depth of mistrust between the two allies assumed.
US authorities have also been wrestling with whether to release graphic photos of the body of Osama bin Laden - which could provide evidence of his death, but also risks offending Muslims.
"It is fair to say that this is a macabre photography," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
Pakistan has hailed the death of Osama bin Laden, but his Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed "deep concern" what he calls an "unauthorized unilateral action". U.S. helicopters carrying the commandos used radar "blind spots" in the rugged terrain along the border of Afghanistan into Pakistan air space without being detected.
Carney insisted bin Laden stood during the raid - although it would not say how - when US forces stormed his compound North of Islamabad, and engaged in a shooting there.
"It was feared that bin Laden would oppose the capture operation, and indeed, he resisted," Carney said. "A woman... wife of Osama bin Laden, rushed the U.S. aggressor and was wounded in the leg but not killed." Bin Laden was then shot and killed. He was not armed. ?
While many leaders of the world applauded the U.S. operation that killed the bin Ladens, there are concerns in some parts of Europe in the United States was wrong to act as a police officer, judge and executioner.
Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder defends the action as legitimate Tuesday, but some in Europe, said bin Laden must have been captured and at trial.
"It was very clearly a violation of international law", former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt said German TV. "The operation could also have incalculable consequences in the Arab world, in the light of all disorders."
PAKISTAN UNDER REVIEW
Pakistan has been the intense international scrutiny since the death of Osama bin Laden, with questions that its security agencies have been too incompetent to catch or knew all along where he was hiding and even if they were accomplices.
The compound where bin Laden was hiding - perhaps also long that five or six years - has been close to the Military Academy of Pakistan, Abbottabad, approximately 40 miles from Islamabad.
"It would be premature to rule out the possibility that there are some people in Pakistan, including the official establishment of Pakistan, which could have been aware of this," head of White House counter-terrorism John Brennan told National Public Radio.
"We are not accusing anyone at this stage, but we want to make sure that we get to the bottom of this.".
Prime Minister David Cameron UK said on the radio of the BBC that Islamabad must answer questions about what he called "support of Osama bin Laden network" in Pakistan.
In an interview with exceptionally waned with Time, Director of the CIA Leon Panetta magazine, explained why Islamabad was not informed of the raid until all helicopters carrying the US Navy SEALs - and body of Osama bin Laden - were out of Pakistani air space.
"It was decided that all efforts to work with the Pakistani could jeopardise the mission: they can alert targets,"Said Panetta."."
The Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, in the first public comment background by any Pakistani leader, defended his Government, which receives billions of dollars in aid from the United States.
"Some in the U.S. press suggested that Pakistan had no vitality in pursuit of terrorism, or worse still that we were misleading and effectively protected the terrorists that we claimed to be continuing," Zardari wrote in the Washington Post. "Such speculation unfounded... do reflect fact.".
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan later said its spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had been sharing information on the compound with the CIA and other agencies of intelligence friendly since 2009 and has continued to do so until mid-April.
"It is important to note that taking advantage of much greater and active technology, CIA exploit leading intelligence given by us to identify and reach Osama bin Laden", the Ministry said in a lengthy statement.
RATINGS BOOST
Obama has experienced a resurgence in popularity of the assassination of the architect of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
About four in ten Americans say that their opinion of Obama improved after he ordered the raid. But the bump in its classification could be short-lived as priority of voters again on crucial national concerns to his 2012 re-election prospects.
Obama may face pressure more to accelerate the planned withdrawal in July of some U.S. forces of the unpopular war in Afghanistan.
The assassination of bin Laden could also assist a political settlement by making it easier for the Afghan Taliban to break their links with al-Qaeda.
"I think that this opens the door to push for a political settlement;" which depends, however, President Obama, choosing to take the opportunity, explains Joshua Foust on American security project in Washington.
The first reaction of the Taliban, however, was to challenge the truth of the death of Osama bin Laden, saying that Washington has not provided "acceptable evidence to back up their claim" that he had been killed.
No photos or video of the funeral of body or swift to Osama bin Laden at sea have been released.
Panetta said there was never any doubt that ultimately a photograph would be made public, but other officials said that no final decision had been made, reflecting an intense internal debate in Washington.
I'll be Candide. "There are sensitivities here in terms of the opportunity to release photographs of Osama bin Laden," said Carney.
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