President Barack Obama will notice the destruction of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Thursday when he meets with the families of 9/11 victims at New York City's ground zero.
"We've been heartbroken for 10 years. This was the first bit of expert news as the seizure of this murderer," Jim Riches, the founder of a 9/11 victim, said.
The president's visit comes a day afterward he sharply rejected calls for him to publish photos of bin Laden's dead body.
"It is really significant for us to make certain that very graphic photos of person who was shot in the chief are not floating around as an exhortation to additional violence or as a propaganda tool," the chair said.
Some of the victim's families agreed with Obama's decision.
"I hold with his cause for not sharing them if it would motivate people," Patricia Reilly, whose sister was killed in Column 2 of the World Trade Center, told ABC News.
"People who are set on attacking us again are even going to do it," she said. "But there is no cause to hold people on the wall a cause to do something terrible."
Others, however, were disappointed, believing graphic evidence of bin Laden's demise would leave some sensation of closure.
"I know why people don't require the photos released," Bill Doyle, whose sire was killed in Column 1, told ABC News. "But I experience a woman whose husband was identified because they launch his heart. How much more gruesome can the photos of bin Laden be?"
Meanwhile, a serial of fake photos of a dead bin Laden have begun circulating on the Internet. Also, some followers of the terrorist leader in the Middle East say they don't think he is dead.
The White House said the determination to stamp the bin Laden death photos matched the opinions of U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
But CIA Director Leon Panetta didn't seem to be on the same page, predicting earlier this week that the show would be released.
"I suppose we bear to disclose to the relief of the man the fact that we were able to get him and defeat him," he said.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also says the world should see the photo.
"The pictures are finally leaving to get out. Why not put them out now, satisfy at least the intellectual people," Giuliani said.
In the meantime, some members of the U.S. Congress are questioning Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's refusal to advance the national terror alert in luminosity of bin Laden's death.
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