Osama blew himself up to avoid capture !!!

[canadian]

Osama blew himself up to avoid capture

By: Ashraf Javed |
LAHORE Al-Qaeda face Osama Bin Laden who had introduced suicide bombing in Pakistan in mid 90s, blew himself up to avoid capture soon after the US special forces (SEALs) launched the late night raid at a compound in Abbotabad on Monday.
It is learnt that his body parts were cut into multiple pieces, as happens in suicide attacks following the bombing, leaving no option for the US forces to simply identify him. A senior Afghan intelligence official, conditioning his identity not to be revealed, said the Americans had planned to nab him alive. But they miscalculated. Osama blew himself up to avoid capture, he said confidently but declined to give further details. According to him, he had frequent contacts with the US special forces involved in the covert operation even before the action.
The Americans had to conduct his DNA test that helped them establish his identity. So this is why US President Obama straightforwardly blocked the publication of his photos saying they might act as incitement to additional violence. He (Osama) left himself unrecognisable and this is why the photos are too horrible to be published, counter-terrorism experts believe.
The US claim that their forces shot him (Osama) dead is totally false, the sources said, adding in case of gunshot killing the dead was left identifiable no matter how many times he was shot. The Americans claim they shot Osama in the head and chest. So why did not they show his body parts? Counter-terror experts questioned.
(http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-...y-2011/Osama-blew-himself-up-to-avoid-capture)

 

[canadian]

When photo images masquerade as reality

MICHAEL POSNER

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

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Barack Obama’s late-night address to Americans this week, announcing the death of fugitive al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, may well have been the seminal public moment of his presidency. Yet the historic photograph of that moment, which graced dozens of newspaper front pages the next day, was a fake – a staged recreation.
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Standing in the East Room, Mr. Obama read his prepared remarks from the teleprompter, then turned and walked away from the podium. No photographers were present – a ban aimed at ensuring that his speech was not interrupted by the disruptive whirr of camera shutters.
Only afterward, with the television cameras off, were photographers admitted – the President returning briefly to reenact part of his speech.
The ensuing photo thus became the latest addition to the voluminous archive of contrived images that masquerade as reality, although it faced competition from the gruesome shots purporting to represent Mr. bin Laden’s dead body.
Photographers, of course, have been doctoring their work almost since the invention of the camera.
For example, a famous 1864 portrait of U.S. Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant leading his troops is, in fact, a composite of three separate shots: Gen. Grant’s head; the horse and body another general; and Confederate prisoners captured in battle.
Since then, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and dozens of other leaders have routinely altered state photographs, either to reflect themselves more favourably or to erase the inconvenient presence of rivals. Last fall, the state-owned Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram rearranged a photograph to show then-president Hosni Mubarak walking ahead of President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, president Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the White House. In the original shot, Mr. Mubarak’s position was near the rear.
To this day, photojournalists scrutinize official handouts from the governments of Iran and North Korea as they may a children’s puzzle: what’s wrong with this picture? Or, where’s the lie?
The problem today, however, is that anyone with a camera can lie – and refashion reality for their own purposes. And they may not be caught. Modern digital technology allows amateurs and professionals to tinker with images, creatively manipulating shadow, colour, reflection and perspective.
For commercial and artistic photographers, it’s an empowering arsenal. But for photojournalists, editors and their audiences, the pixel-based tool kit raises challenging issues.
In 1970, publishing one of the defining photographs of the anti-Vietnam War movement, Life Magazine editors removed an offending gatepost that appeared to rise from the head of Mary Ann Vecchio as she bent over the body of a student shot by the National Guard at Kent State University.
But where is the boundary between authenticity and fraud? How much artificial composition – a child’s broken toy deftly added to a theatre-of-war shot, for example – can be sanctioned? Do photographs of a protest by political dissidents, staged expressly to gain publicity, still count as truth? Is it permissible for a photographer to merge the content of two good shots to create one great shot that may put him on Page One?
In the digital darkroom, when does conventional tweaking of a genuine photograph begin and when does it end? How much airbrushing – in men’s and women’s fashion magazines and elsewhere – should be tolerated?
If the image is published, what disclaimers should accompany it? (Most newspapers carrying the Obama speech photo included a caption acknowledging its after-the-fact status.) And how confident can news organizations be that any photo being published represents visual truth?
Some of these questions were brought forcefully home to Reuters during Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah. Working under battlefield conditions, freelance Lebanese photographer Adnan Hajj deployed Photoshop tools to clone and dramatically darken plumes of smoke rising against the Beirut skyline – the aftermath of an aerial attack. Supporters of Israel denounced the fabrication, which exaggerated the extent of the bombardment and its damage.
After a storm of protest, Reuters quickly withdrew the offending shots from circulation, suspended Mr. Hajj, fired the photo editor responsible and tightened oversight processes to prevent a recurrence.
Mr. Hajj’s manipulation was easy to spot, via the duplication of smoke patterns and buildings. More subtle inventions can sometimes be caught by software programs, which use sophisticated algorithms to analyze photographs for evidence of manufactured elements.
But that process is too time-consuming for organizations like Reuters, which handle up to 1,500 shots per day. Worse, the latest incarnations of Adobe’s Photoshop now deliver optical tools powerful enough to “improve” almost any image in ways that would fool even seasoned photo editors. The rise of citizen photojournalism – JPEGs streaming in over the electronic transom, provenance unknown – adds yet another dimension.
The challenge is unlikely to get easier. The array of technological tricks is broadening and with it, the ability to manufacture reality. In that visual minefield, news organizations will be increasingly dependent on the integrity of their sources to convey the truth. And so will their readers.

 

[mush_pride]

all propaganda by taliban and alqaeda. if he blew himself up how were all the rooms in the building still intact?????????
and why would his daughter lie about him getting shot?????
total BS

Osama blew himself up to avoid capture

By: Ashraf Javed |
LAHORE – Al-Qaeda face Osama Bin Laden who had introduced suicide bombing in Pakistan in mid 90s, blew himself up to avoid capture soon after the US special forces (SEALs) launched the late night raid at a compound in Abbotabad on Monday.
It is learnt that his body parts were cut into multiple pieces, as happens in suicide attacks following the bombing, leaving no option for the US forces to simply identify him. A senior Afghan intelligence official, conditioning his identity not to be revealed, said the Americans had planned to nab him alive. “But they miscalculated. Osama blew himself up to avoid capture,” he said confidently but declined to give further details. According to him, he had frequent contacts with the US special forces involved in the covert operation even before the action.
“The Americans had to conduct his DNA test that helped them establish his identity. So this is why US President Obama straightforwardly blocked the publication of his photos saying “they might act as incitement to additional violence. He (Osama) left himself unrecognisable and this is why the photos are too horrible to be published,” counter-terrorism experts believe.
The US claim that their forces shot him (Osama) dead is totally false, the sources said, adding in case of gunshot killing the dead was left identifiable no matter how many times he was shot. The Americans claim they shot Osama in the head and chest. So why did not they show his body parts? Counter-terror experts questioned.
(http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-...y-2011/Osama-blew-himself-up-to-avoid-capture)

 

[mrcritic]

suntay raho abh kisay kahaniyan...

 

[biofilm]

canadian we did not see any trace of bomb blast in pictures of his room or compound and no body has reported that after visting that place. with regret this story does make any sense, we have to come up with a solid story to show america is wrong. i hope u come out of state of denial soon,,,

 

[shaheer]

now they will keep revealing "shocking stories".today they said compound was "command n control" of alqaida.a place where is no fone ,no internet,no security system.even a nazim/dc/ac got better security than obl'security!!!!tell a lie big enough,loud enough & keep telling it people will eventually come to believe it.

 

[Abdul Allah]

now they will keep revealing "shocking stories".today they said compound was "command n control" of alqaida.a place where is no fone ,no internet,no security system.even a nazim/dc/ac got better security than obl'security!!!!tell a lie big enough,loud enough & keep telling it people will eventually come to believe it.

Oh come
How you can say that there was no security?
there were 100 or so chickens and two cows

No phone or internet well child needs this not a big name like osama

He use pigeon for communications

still you will not accept

 

[Abdul Allah]

we have to come up with a solid story to show america is wrong. i hope u come out of state of denial soon,,,

First America need to come up with better story to prove that it was original

or you might help us by answering some questions

 

[biofilm]

its all european media that is speaking in reference to their leaders. what our leaders have said about it? i think they have said nothing about it. atlease nobody will buy this blowing up idea. thats rediculus