Fake Bin Laden Corpse Photo goes Global

The first image of Bin Laden death picture found on google was bloodied and grotesquely looking and then I noticed that Mr Bin Laden had the smirk on his face that I had seen previous picture, a comparison confirmed - the picture was doctored.

With the global search for pictures of the past event soaring high with search engines these days, its not surprising that it has also increased the gullibility of people, in facebook some unscrupulous links titled "Bin Laden Execution video crazy! insane!!" has been circulation, readers please beware it is a virus that would expose your facebook account to hackers also note that there aren't any such videos in circulation.

The media has also not been spared, AP erroneously published some of these pictures further misleading people into accepting its legitimacy (although all the pictures have been pulled off their sites as at the time of this writeup). A US Senator who bragged about seeing the original pictures while gave an interview on television sparking a short-lived media frenzy but was forced to retract his statement when it was discovered that the pictures he saw were fakes (I found it funny) confirming that he had indeed been duped. Interestingly the debacle isn't far from being over for while President Obama mulls over releasing the actual footage, the World will keep busy with sensationalizing all the details that has been provided us by the death of America's number one enemy.

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Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan

September 11 2001, saw me trying to grab a quick breakfast in the cafeteria of my university just in time to see the twin towers in flames and minutes later a second plane plowing right into the second tower, the rest as they say is still fresh in our minds...

Today's scene looked all too familiar, again having breakfast and the news comes on with a caption "Osama Bin Laden dead", it starred President Barack Obama announcing to the American people and the World that America's public number one enemy had been killed. He highlighted that he had ordered a hit on Bin Laden that was carried out successfully in Pakistan and that the US was in custody of Bin Laden's corpse.

The issue now besides nemesis catching up with Bin Laden, is the fact that he had been harbored in a Pakistani suburb all this while. This is frankly despicable but not surprising at the same time, in fact I had known that Bin laden was not in the lawless areas as they claim but inside Pakistan itself, if you think I was privy to classified info, you'd be mistaken because it was not strange to lots of ordinary Pakistanis I had the privilege of meeting in the past. This being said, the very question that come to mind is:

Did the Pakistani authority know all along and do nothing and were there elements within the government protecting Bin Laden from an already overdue capture?

Anyhow this is very embarrassing for Pakistan, a country that has often suffered violence perpetrated by various extremists groups including Al Qaeda and with critics questioning their commitment on the war on terror in the face of the recent happenings it may be difficult for their leaders to really convince the worldwide audience that they are really working to eliminate terrorism. Indian home minister said,

"we take note with great concern in the statement of President Obama that the fire fight in which Osama Bin Laden was killed occurred in Abbottabad, 'deep inside Pakistan'...he further stated "that this fact underlines our concern that various terrorist organisations find sanctuary in Pakistan".

We will all agree that Osama Bin Laden was a formidable fugitive, that had an equally relentless pursuer, 9 years on the run is not an easy task which by the way I think he handled quite well but then how long and how far can a person run from the curse of a global condemnation, begs to be answered. Osama Bin Laden is gone, dead - buried so lets hope that like minded folks who deemed him invincible learned a valuable lesson - You risk being shot by the US Navy Seals.

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If we are gonna admit it, checking out if your page has been viewed by an ex-partner or your college sweet-heart sound exciting - at least it would be for me...

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What is the truth

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