Osama bin Laden Death Photo A Hoax
May 2 2011, Published 1:48 p.m. ET
The Osama bin Laden death photo that's been broadcast on Pakistani TV, and shown on the Internet, is a fake.
The image, which shows bin Laden's head post-death, was made using photoshop, experts said. The original image, of a dead man’s mangled head, was first published by the Middle East online newspaper themedialine.org on April 29, 2009.
The picture has been pulled by all news agencies.
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