Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.
The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday, show two men dressed in traditional Pakistani garb and one in a t-shirt, with blood streaming from their ears, noses and mouths.
The official, who wished to remain anonymous, sold the pictures to Reuters.
*****CLICK HERE TO SEE THE HIGHLY GRAPHIC IMAGE*****
None of the men looked like bin Laden. President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of his body because it could have incited violence and used as an al Qaeda propaganda tool, the White House said on Wednesday.
Based on the time-stamps on the pictures, the earliest one was dated May 2, 2:30 a.m., approximately an hour after the completion of the raid in which bin Laden was killed.
Other photos, taken hours later at between 5:21 a.m. and 6:43 a.m. show the outside of the trash-strewn compound and the wreckage of the helicopter the United States abandoned. The tail assembly is unusual, and could indicate some kind of previously unknown stealth capability.
Reuters is confident of the authenticity of the purchased images because details in the photos appear to show a wrecked helicopter from the assault, matching details from photos taken independently on Monday.
U.S. forces lost a helicopter in the raid due to a mechanical problem and later destroyed it.
The pictures are also taken in sequence and are all the same size in pixels, indicating they have not been tampered with. The time and date in the photos as recorded in the digital file’s metadata match lighting conditions for the area as well as the time and date imprinted on the image itself.
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That’s graphic ? Its a beautiful picture!!!
“Reuters is confident of the authenticity”
Yet, there is a bright green toy gun next to the guy’s head head. Is this some kind of joke?
I’m really confused. Was that Osama? It didn’t look like him…
#3 NO, the CIA has said that there are going to be no photos. They also warned everyone not to click on any links that people are claiming to have his photo. Since those links will possibly viruses.
I didn’t look at these pictures (as noted by #4), but there are no such pictures on the Reuters website.
#5…If you click on the underlined part in this above article it will take you to The Calgary Sun…I would take it all with a grain of salt & wait a few weeks before you think it’s all true.
Nothing is really sorted out at the moment & I’m sure there is going to be a lot of false info passed around….I still am not convinced all the photos are real. Some of them, yes. But the fact there is a obvious toy gun next to a dead guy reminds me of when Honest Reporting uncovered some fake photos.
BTW, Makir Tov, you do know that Reuters has been caught with photo-shopped photos before, right?
Read the artical: “The photos, taken by a Pakistani security official who entered the compound after the early morning raid on Monday”
and after the Americans left the compound with Bin Laden’s body.
“The pictures are also taken in sequence and are all the same size in pixels, indicating they have not been tampered with. The time and date in the photos as recorded in the digital file’s metadata match lighting conditions for the area as well as the time and date imprinted on the image itself.”
The pictures are now on the Reuters site.
so where is Osama bin Laden??
Wow – this reminds me LEHAVDIL of the Fogel family’s pics.
Is this some kind of Nekama that Hashems showing?
#9, that’s what Reuters always says before the pics are discovered as frauds.