Posted on 01/16/2010 8:30:09 AM PST by opentalk
The FBI has admitted using a photograph of a bearded Spanish politician as the basis for a mocked-up photofit image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look now.
The US state department was forced to withdraw the mocked up photo-image, circulated around the world last week, after the discovery that it was not quite as technically sophisticated as the FBI had originally claimed.
The digitally altered image of an older and greying Bin Laden was meant to show how the world's most wanted terrorist might now look without his trademark turban and long beard. It was released in a renewed effort to locate him, more than eight years after the September 11 attack which he ordered and directed.
But it created an unexpected stir in Madrid when a Spanish MP recognised strong elements of himself in the image and complained to the US...
Gaspar Llamazares: The digitally altered image of an older and greying Bin Laden was meant to show how the world's most wanted terrorist might now look without his trademark turban and long beard.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Damn funniest thing I've seen in ages.
When will the FBI and CIA tell us what we already know, he’s dead.
So quit trying to convince us otherwise.
Our bogey man is no longer Osama, it’s Obama.
I’ve been saying Osama binLaden is dead for four or more years. What a farce this is.
If they picked some hard-right pol, that would have been OK...
So agree. FOX mentioned it back in Dec of 01 if I’m not mistaken.
Bhutto mentioned Osama being dead right before she was assassinated.
If they, being both the CIA and FBI, maybe they wouldn’t get so much funding to find him?
I’m sure the 0 was briefed by the last Presidents Staff of this information.
Osama would be about 52 years old. So I guess we will hear about him and be looking for him for the next 48 years.
So the FBI is composed of con artists.
Mr Llamazares said the mistake showed the "low level" of US intelligence services. It could cause problems for any individual mistakenly seen to resemble the wanted terrorist, he said. "Bin Laden's safety is not threatened by this but mine certainly is."
Pretty embarrassing
Hahaha! That is pretty brilliant! Is he the one with the goth daughters?
Ha, next time this guy gets on a plane to the U.S., he’ll get pulled out of line and manhandled for six hours because he “looks just like Bin Laden”.
The pictures of the despot, who has not been seen since September 2007, are the latest in an increasingly desperate attempt to find the elusive leader, who is believed to be in hiding on the Afghan-Pakistan border. The set of images have been digitally 'aged enhanced' by forensic artists. mailonline
From the FBI
Isn’t that the guy that was in Taxi?
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