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."

Source: http://newsblaze.com/story/20110504122344writ.nb/topstory.html