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WaPo op-ed contributor and former Gitmo detainee posts photoshopped dead Obama pic on his website
The Daily Caller ^ | 5/11/11 | Neil Munro

Posted on 05/11/2011 5:18:59 PM PDT by Nachum

The Washington Post’s Outlook section just gave ex-jihadi Moazzem Begg a half-page this Sunday to lament the U.S. war on jihadis, and Begg repaid the Post by showcasing a photoshopped image of a dead President Barack Obama on his advocacy website.

Washington Post editors did not return The Daily Caller’s phone calls. The Outlook section is edited by Carlos Lozada, who reports to Marcus Brauchli, the Post’s executive editor. The Investigative Project on Terrorism directed TheDC to the photo on Begg’s website.

Begg’s action came just before Thursday, when shareholders are expected to protest financial losses by the newspaper’s parent company, The Washington Post Co. The company’s main revenue-source, the Kaplan education division, has lower profits than expected.

The image, which can be seen at Begg’s Cage Prisoners website, shows a doctored image of Obama with fatal head-wounds. The image is headlined “Breaking News: Barack Obama is Dead,” and comes with a subhead declaring that “American War Criminal Barack Obama has been killed by Pakistani security forces in the UK, Prime Minister Hasan Abdullah of Pakistan has said.”

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Better call Eric Holder. He needs to protect this man's civil rights.
1 posted on 05/11/2011 5:19:02 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Well, gee . . . I mean it’s OK to have a thug, er, artist who advocates killing police officers and harming former President Bush show up at the White House. What’s all the fuss about?


2 posted on 05/11/2011 6:01:20 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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