Posted on 01/16/2010 4:04:30 PM PST by Shermy
MADRID – A Spanish lawmaker was horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.
The image using Gaspar Llamazares' photo appeared on a wanted poster updating the U.S. government's 1998 photo of the al-Qaida leader.
FBI spokesman Ken Hoffman acknowledged to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that the agency used a picture of Llamazares taken from Google Images. ...
"The forensic artist was unable to find suitable features among the reference photographs and obtained those features, in part, from a photograph he found on the Internet," the FBI said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Llamazares, former leader of the United Left party, was elected to Spain's parliament in 2000. The photograph of him used to make the wanted poster originally appeared on posters for his 2004 general-election campaign.
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"I was surprised and angered because it's the most shameless use of a real person to make up the image of a terrorist," Llamazares said Saturday at a news conference. "It's almost like out of a comedy if it didn't deal with matters as serious as bin Laden and citizens' security."
Llamazares planned to ask the U.S. government for an explanation and said he reserved the right to take legal action.
Llamazares said he was concerned to see the government resorting to what he called sloppy techniques, especially in the light of recent terrorism alerts such as the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airplane.
"It might provoke mirth, but it demonstrates that what we're seeing from security services isn't exactly recommendable," he said.
Llamazares said he has "no similarity, physically or ideologically" to bin Laden. They do share one trait — both are 52.
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The Spanish proved they are pussies after the Madrid train bombings. Bint Ladin proved he is a pussy by getting others to become suicide bombers rather than taking on the job himself. It is difficult to tell the pussies apart.
He really doesn’t look like ObL, but I suppose there are specific features that could.
So the media covered for Clinton, and this is news how?
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