Osama Bin Laden's Fake Death Photo Goes Viral

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A photo of Osama Bin Laden's
bloodied face went viral on the
Internet and was reproduced on
the front page of newspapers
around the world, but it's a fake.

The Guardian newspaper in Britain
reported that the photo is a
combination of two photographs.
A bloodied corpse and a real
image of Bin Laden that was
taken in 1998, used by the
Reuters news agency.

The fake photo splashed onto
the Internet hours after Bin
Laden's death and was picked
up by news groups near and
far, in places like Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Senegal and Iraq.

U.S. officials are still
deciding whether to release
an actual image of Bin Laden's
corpse.

"I'll be candid that there are
sensitivities here in terms of
the appropriateness of releasing
photographs of Osama Bin Laden
in the aftermath of this firefight,"
White House Press Secretary Jay
Carney explained to reporters
Tuesday. "We're making an evaluation
about the need to do that."

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Controversy Over Osama Bin Laden's Corpse

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President Obama and national
security officials are thinking
about releasing a photo of
Osama Bin Laden's corpse today,
per officials.

The White House has DNA evidence
and photographs proving that
Osama Bin Laden is dead, and is
deciding whether to release them,
along with video of Bin Laden's
burial at sea.

Senior lawmakers want photos of
Bin Laden's corpse released to
quiet skeptics in the Arab world,
and then there are conspiracy
theorists in the U.S.

"They'll have to make that judgment-
there are some who are talking about
confirmation. Perhaps this will
provide it in some parts of the
world," Condoleezza Rice, former
secretary of state. "There's really
no reason to doubt that Osama Bin
Laden is killed and now that chapter
is behind us and he's been buried at
sea. I don't think there's any reason
to doubt that."

"The death of Osama Bin Laden brings
an important chapter to a close. Al
Qaeda still has Ayman al-Zawahiri,
number 2 in command, I assume now
the number one in command,"
Condoleezza Rice continued. "We know
that they try everyday to plot and plan
to kill us and so we can't lose focus
and vigilance of the continuing
terrorist presence- it's also important
that Afghanistan not go back to failed
state status which after all led to the
kind of territorial integrity where Al
Qaeda could plot and plan 9/11."

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