The CIA plans to show some lawmakers photos of a deceased Bin Laden as the US braced for a 'lone wolf' terror attack over the killing of the al Qaeda chief.
Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence committee, was to go to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia outside Washington to see them Wednesday or Thursday, his spokeswoman Heather Molino said.
The committee chair, Mike Rogers of Michigan, already saw the images on May 2.
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John McCain, the Republican senator, told a journalist he did not plan to see the images, noting: "I've seen enough dead people in my life."
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday announced that a lieutenant general would head an inquiry "to get to the bottom of how, when and why" Bin Laden had been hiding in the garrison town where he was killed by US forces.
'LONE WOLF' ATTACK A WORRY: NAPOLITANO
The United States, braced for retaliation over the killing of Osama Bin Laden, is worried that a "lone wolf" attack would be hard to defend against, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.
Napolitano laid out the possibility that a US citizen radicalized through the Internet could strike in the United States to avenge Bin Laden, who was killed May 2 in a US commando raid in Pakistan.
"One source of concern is what is called 'the lone wolf,'" she said in an interview with CBS News. "And a sole actor, who's not in contact with anyone -- that's very difficult to prevent."
Napolitano did not elaborate, but the threat of attacks by individuals was brought home in 2009 when army major Nidal Hasan was charged with going on a shooting spree at an army base in Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 people.
The homeland security secretary said material recovered at Bin Laden's compound included "continued references to transportation, to aviation and to rail."
"And so, we're in contact with, say, Amtrak and other rail carriers across the country, and making sure that they are following their own safety procedures," she said.
She declined to talk in any detail about what was found in the compound, saying it was still being digested.
"But I can say that we do operate under the premise that be it a homegrown terrorist or a group, they may be actually operationally in touch with al Qaeda. We just operate under that assumption."
