News anchor mix up Obama and Osama

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ssj12 said:

Baalzamon said:

badgenome said:

Baalzamon said:

I'm 99.9% certain I saw on FoxNews this morning that Usama bin Laden was killed.

Edit...hold up, is Usama another name of his or something?

It's an alternate spelling, yes.

I don't understand why Fox News can't just call him Osama like everybody else does.  Even on the main page of their website, it says Usama.

Because Usama I believe is the real spelling.

Osama is the English spelling, but the real spelling is in Arabic.  The 'O' sound is the English equivalent, which is why a lot of Arabic names with the same sound use the 'O' sound.  Mohammed is used over Muhammed for instance.