"Dead" bin Laden photo will likely spawn more conspiracy theories

by Charlie Smith on May 2nd, 2011 at 8:12 AM

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It looks gory and very authentic.

No wonder this photo of what looks like a dead Osama bin Laden is being passed around over the Internet.

However, this one appeared in 2009 on the website of the People's Voice.

This came after a claim by Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari in 2009 that there was little information to suggest that bin Laden was alive.

Nearly a year-and-a-half after that statement, Barack Obama said U.S. forces recently killed bin Laden not far from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, where Zardari hangs out.

And the Americans say they took bin Laden's body in their custody as proof. CNN says the DNA from the corpse matches that of the Saudi mass murderer.

Bin Laden has been linked to more conspiracy theories than anyone else in this century with the possible exception of Dick Cheney.

Don't expect that to end with his death.

Comments

12 Comments

Stoner

May 2, 2011 at 8:39am

Benazir Bhutto stated bin? Laden was killed YEARS ago, and even gave the name of the man who killed him! Right before "they" killed her.
http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=SDTEEXG3ge8

HellSlayerAndy

May 2, 2011 at 9:33am

Some of the conspiracy types work pretty quick...they even do videos!
http://www.siasat.com/english/news/must-watch-osama-really-killed-or-pho...

cranky mom

May 2, 2011 at 10:28am

fake photo

justin

May 2, 2011 at 11:37am

looks completely photoshopped. look around the guys wrist area look how the darkness of his beard blurs ..... worst photoshop ever

The Low

May 2, 2011 at 1:20pm

It's a 3 year old Photoshop fake, sorry folks: http://tinyurl.com/3g9qodv

Don Mann

May 2, 2011 at 1:22pm

can't read eh?

Trank

May 2, 2011 at 1:58pm

Fake, fake fake: with America playing chess with the world right now I wonder what the next move will be? http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/5/2/13043...

Chas Tundish

May 3, 2011 at 8:31am

I have no doubt he's dead, but this photo is not him: it's the worst photoshop job ever

Mojo

May 3, 2011 at 10:07am

If President Obama has officially declared bin Laden dead, then it should be so in the record books.

We can only secretly wish that it was an elaborately "staged kidnapping" in which Osama is still alive and is now serving as a secret prisoner of war to be utilized for data and information extraction in the continuing hunt for other al Quadas. A secret kept from the Muslim and the Western world for the purpose of not inflaming sentiments.

Alas, that would be too much to hope for. Either way, American 9/11 Justice was Served.

M.H.