It's not just angry rightwingers who mix up "Obama" and "Osama." Yahoo News has joined CNN and the Associated Press in confusing the most powerful man in the world with his terrorist enemy.
Here's the latest goof:
Science takes on terror hunt
A geographer uses innovative analysis to narrow Obama bin Laden's location to three sites.
That's some innovative analysis! Yahoo's news producers join a long line of Obama-Osama flubbers. In January 2007, a CNN on-air graphic for a story about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the Al Qaeda founder, asked, "Where's Obama"? The network apologized.
During the campaign, Republican candidate Mitt Romney repeatedly confused Barack Obama's last name with Osama Bin Laden's first one. They rhyme, after all. Last April, AP board chairman Dean Singleton made the same mistake, referring to the hunt for "Obama Bin Laden," prompting a jocular rebuke by Obama.
During the campaign, Republican candidate Mitt Romney 
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3:02 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
Clitoris says he's not to blame for crisis.
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3:24 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
A jocular rebuke. I am so using that in tomorrow's staff meeting.
4:11 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
@popularbelief: Ha ha, the first thing I did after reading this was look that up.
3:40 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
Reminds me of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Sidious
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3:54 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
McLaughlin has done this too, but he's an olde. Does that give him a pass?
10:11 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
@lobstr: teddy kennedy is at fault as well:
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4:01 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
Osama 2012
4:07 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
I knew I should've voted for McCain!
4:23 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
Yes, and George Bush is NOT the same as George Washington.
5:03 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
I often confuse George Bush with Boy George - their names and ideologies are just so similar.
5:41 PM on Tue Feb 17 2009
I always thunk after seeing those pictures of OBL in the mountains, why some scientist could not identify any tree species or rock formations and deduce altitude or location from them.
5:34 AM
This sounds stupid but Bin Laden is dead, im not 100% sure but i have been watching alot of Alex Jones's work and he explains how the last two videos of bin laden are fake and they are put there to keep everyone scared and also they are using him as a pawn in their game, also i have a video of a women who mentions him being dead and then i read that on her way home to a protest she was blown up and was killed but all this is kept out of the media
here are the video refrences
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as i said im not 100% sure but it could be true
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