CNN confused Obama with Osama bin Laden in embarrassing on-air mix-up

CNN mixed up the names of former President Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden successful an embarrassing on-air gaffe connected Friday night.

During a conception connected the Guantanamo Bay detention campy connected "CNN News Central," a graphic appeared down anchor Boris Sanchez that read, "OBAMA BIN LADEN ASSOCIATE: ABU ZUBAYDAH."

Abu Zubaydah – the suspected Palestinian violent whose existent sanction is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn – is presently being held astatine Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portion authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding his apprehension and detention.

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CNN mixed up erstwhile President Barack Obama and notorious violent Osama bin Laden's names successful an embarrassing on-air flub connected Friday.

When President Obama took bureau successful January 2009, helium pledged to adjacent the detention installation wrong a twelvemonth but failed to bash so. This nonaccomplishment enabled aboriginal presidents, similar President Donald Trump, to usage the detention installation to location immoderate of the world's astir unsafe criminals.

Earlier this week, Trump instructed the Pentagon to hole the installation to clasp astir 30,000 'criminal amerciable aliens' astatine the US subject base.

While Sanchez did not work "Obama bin Laden" retired loud, viewers rapidly caught the glaring mashup of names, and took to societal media to telephone it out.

"So it's confirmed now. The Babylon Bee bought CNN and conscionable didn't archer us," X idiosyncratic Charles Jorhan mocked.

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CNN laid disconnected implicit 200 employees successful January arsenic their ratings continued to spiral. ( Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

This gaffe comes arsenic different embarrassing infinitesimal for the struggling wide quality network, with CNN laying off astir 6% of their workforce astatine the extremity of January arsenic ratings continued to decline.

CNN painted the layoffs arsenic a captious measurement toward securing the network’s future, telling staffers that "irreversible shifts successful the mode audiences successful America and astir the satellite devour news" person impacted its concern model. About 200 jobs were eliminated arsenic a result. 

The quality web besides mislaid a large suit past month, being recovered liable for defaming U.S. Navy seasoned Zachary Young. A assemblage awarded the Navy seasoned $4 cardinal successful mislaid earnings, $1 cardinal successful idiosyncratic damages specified arsenic symptom and suffering and said that punitive damages are warranted against CNN.

CNN declined to remark to Fox News Digital connected the sanction mix-up.

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Fox News Digital's Brian Flood and Greg Norman contributed to this report.