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Pakistani photographer Mazhar Khan displays his photographs of Osama bin Laden taken in Afghanistan, before giving a press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

By Liu Linlin

The approval rating of US President Barack Obama rose more than 10 percent on Wednesday, amid contradicting details about the killing of Osama bin Laden that has drawn suspicion about the legitimacy of the operation.

According to a nationwide survey by The New York Times and CBS News, 57 percent of the 532 US adults polled said they now approved of Obama's job performance, up from 46 percent last month.

The increase in the ratings came largely from Republicans and Independents. Among Independents, Obama's approval rating increased 11 points from last month, to 52 percent, while it rose 15 points among Republicans, to 24 percent, the Times reported.

"Wiping out Bin Laden has been almost 10 years in the making, so it was really significant," Diane Bottum, 63, a Republican from Lafayette, Indiana, told the Times. "I'm convinced Obama has nailed the next election."

However, the newspaper noted that it is common for such a rating surge after major military or foreign policy successes.

After the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003, then-US president George W. Bush enjoyed an 8 percent increase in approval, but the surge evaporated within a month, the Times reported.

Jia Qingguo, deputy director of the School of International Studies of Peking University, said that the burst of support would soon be overwhelmed by problems such as national debt and unemployment.

"Apparently some of the US voters are over the moon right now and are in a short period of amnesia on Obama's economic performance," Jia said, adding that it is too early to see any significant impact on Obama's re-election aspirations.

According to the survey, more than half of the polled said they disapproved of Obama's handling of the economy, similar to the result last month, The New York Times said.

Meanwhile, as more details of the operation unfolded on Wednesday, some analysts criticized the Obama administration for ordering troops to carry out an extra-judicial killing that violated Pakistan's sovereignty.

Jay Carney, a White House spokesman, said Tuesday that Bin Laden was not armed when he was killed, and his wife was shot when rushing toward US soldiers, contradicting an earlier statement from John O. Brennan, the president's counter-terrorism adviser, that the terror chief used his wife as a "human shield."

Citing a daughter of Bin Laden, who allegedly saw the killing, Al Arabiya television went further, claiming that the architect of the 9/11 attacks was first taken prisoner and then shot, Reuters reported.

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