The original article is from US satire website The Onion.
Fact Check India: Kashmir Pen, a weekly newspaper operating from Srinagar, republished a fictional article by US satire website The Onion about the CIA issuing a posthumous apology to slain terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
The article, which has been reproduced from theonion.com, goes on to mention how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had erroneously rushed to conclude that Osama Bin Laden, founder of the global terrorist organization al-Qaeda, was the mastermind of 9/11 attacks.
Kashmir Pen carried the story verbatim on January 24, 2019. View an archived version of it here. It posted the same to its Facebook page (see the post here)
Kashmir Pen carried the story under the category ‘International’ on its website. It even states the source of the article as The Onion.
The Onion’s piece also includes fictional and made up quotes of CIA director Gina Haspel rendering an emotional apology to Bin Laden’s family after new evidence conclusively cleared the former Al Qaeda leader of any involvement whatsoever. It further states the CIA has offered to his family $18 million as restitution for his death.
The satire story also claimed the CIA was now operating under the assumption that Zacarias Moussaoui acted alone in perpetrating the events of 9/11.









