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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: 8933
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.
the White House didn't post this photo.
Then who forged it and posted it? Sounds like the fraud who posted Barry Soetoro's latest fake birth certificate.
In not letting him live this one down, be gentle with him, OK? The meal of crow over this is already going to make his stomach ache. ;-D
How are you not letting me live this down? You are the fool who swallows virtually everything from this White House. I posted proof the latest story from this corrupt administration is just one more lie. You believe it because you are a communist shill. You can't refute anything. Just like your boyfriend war.
#19. To: Rudgear (#12)
Why are you not getting a clue that I and other people see you would be running for your life had you been around when Orson Wells panicked people with his War of the Worlds radio show simulating a real time, modern day Martian attack and had been listening? Why are people having the good sense not to jump in and be the wing man to a wing nut?
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#4. To: go65 (#2)
#5. To: Rudgear (#4)
Why post a fake photo in the first place? This White House has no credibility whatsoever.
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#11. To: Rudgear, War (#7)
#12. To: Ferret Mike (#11)
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