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Osama Bin Loggin shirt stirs controversy

A festival t-shirt featuring Osama Bin Laden has stirred debate in an American town.

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A community festival celebrating the timber heritage of US town Gray's Harbour is attracting national attention over a t-shirt mocking Osama bin Laden.

The Loggers' Playday festival celebrates that heritage every September — this year's logging festival is schedule for Sept. 10 — and every year, a special shirt is made.

Known for being edgy, previous designs have mocked environmentalists and hippies.

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This year's black shirt features a heavily muscled logger with a USA hat and a flag tattoo pushing terrorist Osama bin Laden into the ocean.

Bin Laden is tied to a log and is looking up at the logger in desperation.

Underneath the picture, it states: “Osama Bin Loggin'.”


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