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Title: Osama bin Laden corpse photo is fake
Source:
Guardian
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201 ... /02/osama-bin-laden-photo-fake
Published: May 2, 2011
Author: Amelia Hill
Post Date: 2011-05-02 14:18:33 by Rudgear
Keywords: Government, Sham, Barry Soetoro Follies
Views: 9186
Comments: 36
An image apparently showing a dead Osama bin Laden broadcast on Pakistani television and picked up by British newspaper websites is a fake. The bloodied image of a man with matted hair and a blank, half-opened eye has been circulating on the internet for the past two years. It was used on the front pages of the Mail, Times, Telegraph, Sun and Mirror websites, though swiftly removed after the fake was exposed on Twitter. It appears the fake picture was initially published by the Middle East online newspaper themedialine.org on 29 April 2009, with a warning from the editor that it was "unable to ascertain whether the photo is genuine or not". Since then, however, the image has been claimed as genuine on a number of conspiracy forums and used to substantiate claims that the terrorist responsible for the 9/11 bombings had been killed. The Guardian was one of the few sites to hold back from using the manipulated image on its front page, reporting the picture's existence in its live blog but questioning its legitimacy. The image is based on a genuine photograph of Bin Laden taken in 1998 and used by the Reuters news agency.
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#2. To: Rudgear (#0)
Brennan is holding a press conference right now, they still haven't made any decisions about releasing the photos.
Why post a fake photo in the first place? This White House has no credibility whatsoever.
Why does anyone photoshop photos for use in forums? And do you think this is the first time some people got confused about the work of a layman ameteur user of Adobe products? ;-D
Who did it and why? I know you don't care.
#15. To: Rudgear (#10)
I don't care who made any of the many images celebrating this news story I've seen yesterday and today. I would only care if it were a real photo, and then I'd - unlike you - would do checking to make sure it was a photo actually released by the U.S. Government. I
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