I like your "Strike the heads of the Infidel," scenario, but I think that it's for the same reason that a killer cuts off the head of a corpse: to hide their identity.
And...you know that I never kid about Obama and Photoshop. Geez, we've got a ton of Photoshopped photos of ZERO, now, don't we?
So the question arises as we look at yet another 'alibi fauxteaux', what was he doing, with whom, and where when he was supposed to be there?
killer cuts off the head of a corpse: to hide their identity
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Or the person taking the picture sucked and mainly wanted to get zer0 and since he was sitting down, cut off the heads? The one in flip flops is Reggie Love. He wore them a lot during the trip and had the same ones on when he arrived back at the WH with BO and departed Marine1. He also had them on in Paris at the Eiffel tower. Who the other 2 are, I don’t know.