Fact Check: Altered Image Falsely Depicts Bush Meeting with Bin Laden

The original photo from a post-9/11 Pentagon meeting shows Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, not Osama bin Laden.

Social media posts have been circulating a digitally altered image that falsely claims to show then-President George W. Bush in a meeting with Osama bin Laden.
The original image, taken at a Pentagon meeting on September 12, 2001, actually shows Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, not bin Laden.
The manipulated image has been cropping out other government officials present in the original photo, such as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Henry Shelton and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card.
Fact-checking organizations have debunked the false claim and provided the original image for comparison.
The misinformation has been widely shared despite the fact that bin Laden, the orchestrator of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was killed in a U.S. commando operation in Pakistan in 2011.