A photo released by Pakistani television purporting to show the corpse of Osama Bin Laden is a photomontage.
The image aroused doubt. The hoax has been demonstrated. Monday morning, shortly after the announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. operation in Pakistan, Pakistani television released a faked photo claiming to be the leader of the battered face of al-Qaida. The Pakistani media, which have since removed the document specified that the image was not authentifée.
Agence France-Presse announced that it submitted the photograph to a special software. This helped prove that the photograph had been faked by taking the beard and the lower face of an older photo of bin Laden. An element is particularly intriguing: the bearded image is just gray and rather recalls a photo of bin Laden much younger, while the last known photographs of him showed a lot more gray hairs. The editor in chief of French photo agency is convinced: "The beard is blurred, it is clear that this is a montage," said Mladen Antonov.
Twitter, images showing the composition of the assembly have been released. The cliché would have been released from the lower part consists of an old photo of bin Laden and the upper, swollen and bleeding, a picture of a corpse's face.
A montage aired on twitter had already cast serious doubt on the document, which could be the result of an image-editing software like Photoshop. Moreover, according to a senior U.S. official, testifying anonymously, bin Laden was shot in the head after trying to resist the U.S. onslaught. The snapshot could not match with that information.
The picture was still aired by many media and international sites before being withdrawn. Questioned by AFP, Herve Béroud, editorial director of BFM TV, said the chain "continues to broadcast to explain what happened.
Monday noon, official photographs of bin Laden's death had been published
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