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To not want to look at a dead mans face on the front of the newspaper?

54 replies

WhiteBumOfTheMountain · 02/05/2011 09:14

I am not into looking at corpses over breakfast.

The Daily Fail has a huge pic of Bin Laden's dead face on the main page.

Why?

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WhiteBumOfTheMountain · 02/05/2011 10:28

Grin at all the dissapeared people on Eastenders!

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southmum · 02/05/2011 10:46

hmm, google Osama bin laden dead picture and fake and look at the photoblog website.

I am gullible though but still......

Punkatheart · 02/05/2011 10:56

But google Elvis and the same - there will always be people reluctant to accept a famous (and infamous) dead person.

WhiteBumOfTheMountain · 02/05/2011 11:22

The pic of him dead has mysteriously GONE from the DMs home page.

South....I rekon you are right...it is a fake. The pic on the photoblog page WAS the same one on the DM site!
So did some journo pic up on the same pic whichPhooblog say is from "unknown sources" and stick it up only to later reallise it was too much...or fake?

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 02/05/2011 11:41

I did see the picture on the DM website. It didn't look remotely like ObL.
I agree with whoever said that people want to see death and poke it with a stick just to prove to themselves that the individual is really dead.
The Sadamm Hussain son's were the same, show them laid out to prove it.

hairylights · 02/05/2011 11:44

alledgedly photoshopped - look at his mouth

hairylights · 02/05/2011 11:44

sorry - disclaimer - that link shows said picture

DarthNiqabi · 02/05/2011 11:46

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Punkatheart · 02/05/2011 11:56

It would seem that I am not the only slippery-fingered idiot but jeez, this is a huge slip-up:

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WhiteBumOfTheMountain · 02/05/2011 12:07

What I don't understand is the pic which the Telegraph claim is the top half...who is that? Some random dead man?

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expatinscotland · 02/05/2011 12:08

He's alive. He's living on a hippy commune with JFK, Elvis and Princess Di. He was waiting for Henry Cooper to stage his death so he'd have someone to spar with.

Punkatheart · 02/05/2011 12:14

The one with the intact mouth (extreme right of the three) is Osama dead at the top and an alive photoshopped mouth. The picture on the left of the three is the REAL photo - more gruesome. So all are Osama. No random men involved.

Al0uiseG · 02/05/2011 12:36

His money won't go to anyone, it will be analysed to see the trail it creates.

SueSylvesterforPM · 02/05/2011 12:38

just looked on the website , ergh his eye [csad]

but its not entirely believed.

AccioPinotGrigio · 02/05/2011 13:00

I saw that photo in 2010. It is a fake.

nijinsky · 02/05/2011 13:09

Personally, I found photos of the Twin Towers being attacked and the aftermath more upsetting.

Bin Laden being dead is news. I want to see photographic proof if possible, not just read about it. I'm not a child; I can stomach mildly unpleasant news.

Unfortunately the photo is not in the Scottish edition of the Daily Mail at all. It is Henry Cooper instead.

psiloveyou · 02/05/2011 13:59

There's nothing in my paper. If it's only on line YABU for being one of those people who slates Mail readers buts sneaks away to avidly read it on line.
Seems to be a lot of those on here Wink

TheOriginalFAB · 02/05/2011 14:01

DH bought the DM today and it has no dead corpses on the front.

Balsam · 02/05/2011 14:14

I'm not sure it happened a week ago - if it did, why pretend it happened yesterday? What would be the purpose?

Punkatheart · 02/05/2011 14:39

It has happened last week - but it took time for DNA.

AyeRobot · 02/05/2011 14:49

I am loving that the DM has put a $ value on the compound in which OBL was living.

Photo is faked.

SauvignonBlanche · 02/05/2011 14:51

I find every page of the DM to be deeply disturbing.

bejeezus · 02/05/2011 14:56

i thought the media were not allowed to show pictures of dead bodies? (is it illegal?)- it doesnt seem to apply to brown people

Tee2072 · 02/05/2011 15:03

AyeRobot I've actually heard BBC and CNN also put a $ amount on the compound.