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This combination of two images shows a widely distributed image (L) on the Internet on May 2, 2011 of what Pakistani television described as an unconfirmed image of Osama bin Laden’s bloodied face after the United States said he had been killed, and one (at R) which is a horizontally inverted undated archive picture of the Al-Qaida leader. This combination of images clearly show that the beard and the lower part of the image was most probably cloned and pasted on the image of a body that doesn’t belong to bin Laden, making the picture on the left a fake. Bin Laden was killed in a highly sensitive intelligence operation in the suburbs of Abbottabad, 50 kms (30 miles) northwest of the Pakistani capital Islamabad, it was announced on May 2, 2011. AFP PHOTO/HO