North Dakota lawmaker posts bogus photo of Omar on Facebook

 

October 20, 2019



FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A Republican state senator from North Dakota took to Facebook to post a long-debunked photo that claims to be Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar holding a weapon at an al-Qaida training camp.

The photo on the home page of Rep. Oley Larsen, of Minot, has been debunked by several sources since it appeared on social media this summer. It's an Associated Press photo taken at a Mogadishu military training campus in 1978, before Omar was born.

Larsen also called Omar an "elected terrorist" in the comments section of his post.

Larsen and North Dakota Republican Senate Majority Le...



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