The battle over the Osama bin Laden death photos is not over.

The Obama administration asked a court to keep the bin Laden photos secret, saying publication would put U.S. troops and citizens at risk worldwide.

The United States has 52 photographs and video recordings from the early May raid in Pakistan that killed bin Laden, organizer of the 9/11 attacks.

President Obama refused to release the photos in May, telling 60 Minutes he wanted to make sure "very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, or as a propaganda tool."

"We don't trot out this stuff as trophies," Obama told Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes. "We don't need to spike the football."

The latest developments from the Associated Press: