Osama Bin Laden has been killed

SampanViking said:

The Daily Mail picture looks like its been taken on the kind of shaky, low res and out of focus camera usually owned by UFO and Loch Ness Monster Enthusiasts.

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Maybe it was taken by one of the participants with a Low Res Camera phone or a still shot off a video camera. Those lines in the photo make think that the latter is more likely.

This allegedly is the crashed black hawk from the operation in or near the compound.

pugachev_diver said:

Deleted by bd popeye. Offensive country bashing dribble. And you and your alter egos will be gone. Yeah he's a troll.. Be sure to read the banned list.

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bladerunner said:

Maybe it was taken by one of the participants with a Low Res Camera phone or a still shot off a video camera. Those lines in the photo make think that the latter is more likely.

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Are you seriously suggesting that America's finest are sent in with equipment that is so poor that you can buy better in a toy shop?

It also managed to make someone with a long thin head look like someone with a short round one.

bd popeye said:

I don't think so. The helo malfunction may have been due to FOD. Rocks and sand flying about sucked up in the engine..Or perhaps something hit a rotorblade. I'm sure no LZ was completely cleared before the landing. My shipmates the US Navy SEALS destroyed the helo before they left the scene.

Bravo Zulu a job well done.

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Yeah the more you read about all sorts of special operations missions, the more you realize that Murphy's law really is correct. You practically have to expect mechanical failure or something at the worst possible moment. The Iran hostage rescue mission in 1979 failed because of various mechanical and "Random" problems. In the "Black Hawk Down" incident the original US casualty that set in motion a chain of failures was caused by a guy falling while repelling from the helicopter. I could go on and on with examples of covert operations that suffered from problems not related to enemy fire. I'd imagine that in this case, the heli crashed on the way out, otherwise they probably would have scrubbed/modified the mission. I have a nagging suspicion too that maybe the helicopter was shot down by Pakistani Army units that were in Abbotabad.

EDIT: The latest news says that Obama watched the operation go down on live video and that that Pakistanis scrambled jets as the SEALs were egressing.

SampanViking said:

Are you seriously suggesting that America's finest are sent in with equipment that is so poor that you can buy better in a toy shop?

It also managed to make someone with a long thin head look like someone with a short round one.

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Even if its genuine, its not an official photo. Its simply one taken by a commando who saw the opportunity in taking a photo of the corpse of the world's most wanted man too good an opportunity to pass up, hence the quality. Ive seen photos of the dead in Iraq and Afghanistan taken by the ordinary marine. Even now AP are showing unofficial videos of the compound, and the bedroom where shootout occurred. Having said that I'd have to agree with you that the roundness of the face does cast some doubt.

This is said to be how they got the ' fake ' photo.Apparently it's been on the internet for some years.

Yeah that photo appeared on 4chan before I saw it anywhere else and it was regarded as a fake so...that should tell you whats up with that.

Finn McCool said:

Yeah that photo appeared on 4chan before I saw it anywhere else and it was regarded as a fake so...that should tell you whats up with that.

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Well that settles it.
but the link didnt work for me

Here's another or just google 'Osama photo fake'