Dennis Pozniak is a published photographer residing in Edmonton

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 Alberta

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, Canada

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. Pozniak is most notable for the Bert is Evil

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Bert is Evil is the name of a widely mirrored web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a character on the American children's television program Sesame Street...

 mirror

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 website he ran between 1998-2001. The website was shut down in 2001 in the month following the 9/11 attacks

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. The cause for the shut down was a photochopped image, originally posted to his site in 1998, of the Sesame Street

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 Muppet 'Bert' posing in a picture with Osama bin Laden

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 that was later photographed at a pro-bin Laden protest rally in Bangladesh

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. Pozniak was subsequently bombarded with international media requests and became a local "celebrity" for several days.