“The relevance of bin Laden should be overshadowed by the wave of pro-democracy movements in the Middle East,” said Yaser Tabbara, a Chicago attorney and member of the board of directors of the Council on American Islamic Relations. “Bin Laden was already marginalized, I’m someone who goes to the Middle East quite a bit and I haven’t heard his name in a very long time.”

"It is a double-edged sword and it has to be balanced out against the conspiracy theories that are likely to come out if there is no evidence provided by the government that this was Osama bin Laden," says Rehab.

"I think Obama should issue proof to the public that this was indeed bin Laden. We don't need to see gory photos. We don't need to put ourselves in a worse spot in terms of our national security, and so the DNA report, rather than the photos, can accomplish that," said Ahmed Rehab.

"I think Obama should issue proof to the public that this was indeed bin Laden. We don't need to see gory photos. We don't need to put ourselves in a worse spot in terms of our national security, and so the DNA report, rather than the photos, can accomplish that," said Ahmed Rehab.

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab appears as a live, in-studio guest on ABC7 News This Morning to talk to Hosea Sanders and Judy Hsu about the death of Osama bin Laden.

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab appears as a live, in-studio guest on ABC7 News This Morning to talk to Hosea Sanders and Judy Hsu about the death of Osama bin Laden.

"We've politicized 9/11, we've had costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with surges, military personnel, with trillions of dollars spent. And then at the end of the day it takes what we've been saying all along - good, hard intelligence and a committed group of surgical strikes," says Ahmed Rehab.