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# Banksy on Osama in 2010
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/banksy-on-osama-in-2010/
- Published: 2011-05-02T05:04:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:41:00.000Z
- Description: Banksy on Bin Laden - http://j.mp/mHtzEM [http://j.mp/mHtzEM] #streetart [http://twitter.com/search?q=%23streetart]less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/#!/vandalog/status/64907437878153216] via web [http://si0.twimg.com/images/dev/cms/intents/icons/favorite.png] Favorite [http://twitter.com/in
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Banksy, Osama Bin Laden, San Francisco, Street Art, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2011/05/banksy-osama.jpg)

BANKSY’s towel-a-ban Osama Bin Laden sunbathes atop his hideout in the Marin Headlands (via flickr.com/kanaka)

https://twitter.com/vandalog/status/64907437878153216

In case you haven’t heard … [Osama bid Laden is dead](http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead?ref=hyperallergic.com).

Also, [bin Laden’s compound](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/osama-bin-ladens-compound-already-mapped-on-google/238116/?ref=hyperallergic.com) is already mapped on Google Maps.

Soo many street artists have grappled with the topic of Osama (successfully and unsuccessfully) like [this](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3590382/The-artist-who-shot-Osama-bin-Laden.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/25229906@N00/3944301273/?ref=hyperallergic.com), [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/triciawang/210160902/?ref=hyperallergic.com), [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfagerdotcom/780077779/?ref=hyperallergic.com), [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimmo-cozzolino/3119209479/?ref=hyperallergic.com), [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauradotcom/155875060/?ref=hyperallergic.com), [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimmo-cozzolino/3119208589/?ref=hyperallergic.com), [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gino%5Fginelli/416909106/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [this](http://www.flickr.com/photos/hragvartanian/3846535666/?ref=hyperallergic.com).