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On 3 December 2015, Facebook user Kelly Roiz posted a photo purportedly showing President Obama in a car with ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: While the origins of the photo are still unclear, it appears that it was first posted to the internet on 21 July 2014 on the web site Live Leak. That photo was also accompanied by a similar claim: Shireen Said, the Live Leak user who originally uploaded the photo, admitted in the comment section that Obama was not pictured in the above-displayed image and that she was trolling when she posted the photo: In addition to Shireen Said's admission that s/he was trolling when s/he posted the above-displayed photo, it should be noted that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was between the ages of 10 and 12 in the beginning of the 1980s, when the photograph was allegedly taken. So what we have is a picture that shows four people with weapons in a car, and one of those people bears a darker complexion and a minor resemblance to the President of the United States:
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