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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