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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: 9208
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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#27. To: Rudgear (#0)
The REASON you keep the body. Show me the body....
Show me the body.... Yes sir.
Show me the body.... Yes sir. And now: Bring Me the Head: The Top 50 000. The Royalty believe in Magic. You know where Geronimo's Skull is. Guess where OBL's will be.... And not at the bottom of the ocean....;}
I don't know where it will be. What's your guess? I'd bet right now it's in some "secret European detention camp", being prepped for a session.
#36. To: We The People (#35)
I don't know where it will be. What's your guess? I'd bet right now it's in some "secret European detention camp", being prepped for a session. The Bin Laden's are one of the richest families in the KSA. Death would've been quick. The Saudi's know he is dead....;} The COUP: "Though he has never seen combat, his power points seemingly yield ancient magic code, and his sycophants among politicians, media scribes and so called “think tanks” craft elaborate panegyrics in his name, hagiographies and calls for a fifth star, presumably for leaving behind “fragile and reversible” conditions on the ground in every command before leaving for another every year or so. (Agence France Presse/Saul Loeb) What else could a distant traveler from another time think, other than the American national security elite circa 2007 to 2011 had fallen into some sort of mass induced swoon—over one man who, for all of his medals, ribbons and stars, did not win a war, but worse, encouraged and manipulated two Presidents of the United States to pour more blood, more treasure into it until everyone was feeling stupid and more than a little resentful about getting involved in the first place."
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#29. To: mcgowanjm (#27)
The REASON you keep the body.
#31. To: We The People, socalv8, rudgear, All (#29)
The REASON you keep the body.
#35. To: mcgowanjm (#31)
Guess where OBL's will be....
Replies to Comment # 35. Guess where OBL's will be....
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