Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld And Bin Laden Together -- Edited Version Of Pentagon Image

A manipulated image falsely depicted former U.S. President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Osama bin Laden sitting together at a Pentagon meeting. The image was an edited version of an original photo taken at the Pentagon on September 12, 2001, the day after the 9/11 attacks. In the edited version, Osama bin Laden was inserted to replace Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and Thomas E. White was misidentified as Cheney. The claim originated from a post on X by the @GuidoZaccaglino account on October 12, 2026. Fact-checkers verified the original image on the Department of Defense website and found no supporting reports in established news outlets.

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