Is Osama bin Ladin nothing more than a fiction?

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    Originally Posted By Mr X

    I have to wonder after seeing this...

    <a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/29/article-1223757-019C224A000004B0-35_634x263.jpg" target="_blank">http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix...x263.jpg</a>

    Seriously?
     
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    Originally Posted By mawnck

    Uhhhh ... all I see are two pictures of him. What are you getting at?
     
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    Originally Posted By Mr X

    Sorry for the crappy source...but still, if those two pics are purported to be bin Ladin, isn't that just hard to believe?
     
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    Originally Posted By Mr X

    Maw, do those two pictures REALLY look like the same dude to you?

    Look at the nose.
     
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    Originally Posted By Mr X

    The bottom lip..the eyes, the whole shape of the head is entirely different.

    Surely you can see that?
     
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    Originally Posted By skinnerbox

    The problem with Osama is that he has 18 sons, several of whom look just like he does. It would be quite simple for one of his sons to take his place and pass himself off as his father. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this already happened, years ago.
     
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    Originally Posted By Mr X

    Could be.

    But in this case, they don't even look RELATED to me (seriously, the guy on the right has a hook nose and the guy on the left a flat, wide nose...is that something you often see even among families that aren't the Jackson 5?).
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    I get the feeling that he may have already died from his well deserved bout with cancer.
     
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    Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

    So are you saying he is like the Dread Pirate Roberts?
     
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    Originally Posted By mawnck

    >>Surely you can see that?<<

    Truthfully, X, I don't. The quality of both shots is way too poopy to be drawing any conclusions about stuff like that, particularly since one of them is from a low-quality video source.
     
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    Originally Posted By Sport Goofy

    Many of the world's most notorious figures have used body doubles as a deception strategy, and tactic to avoid assassination. That doesn't make the individuals less real. Hitler used look-alikes frequently. Saddam Hussein was also know to have a many look-alikes.
     
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    Originally Posted By wahooskipper

    I think they look a lot like the guy at the beginning of Aladdin...but what do I know?
     
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    Originally Posted By mele

    Ha! Careful, he might cut off your ear if he doesn't like your face.
     
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    Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795

    "So are you saying he is like the Dread Pirate Roberts?"

    Lol :)
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    <<< Admits doesn't quite understand the Dread Pirate Roberts joke.
     
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    Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

    Sorry DAR, my attempt at humour. In the PRincess Bride, the joke is there is a pirate who terrorises everyone and has been for years. It turns out it is a series of different people chosen to become the next DPR. Maybe the pope could have been a better analogy, but I feared the repurcussions of such a statement.
     
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    Originally Posted By skinnerbox

    "Inconceivable!"

    8^)
     
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    Originally Posted By DAR

    I've never seen the Princess Bride
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    ^--I thought I was the only one.
     
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    Originally Posted By WilliamK99

    If Osama does die this year, chances are he'll win the Nobel Peace Prize next year...
     

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