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Bin Laden’s Parrots Blood Fuel Boom in Pakistan Artists

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Osama bin Laden stares out at an army of shadowy figures. Each carries a machine gun and has the head of a parrot.

The roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York is covered with what looks like dried blood. Close up, the work shows shrubbery and bird feathers.