I don't know if the similarities in grooming is due to being from the same city or if everyone groomed like Saddam to honor him and avoid being killed.
In this guy's case, I think you're right about the skin folds on the face. Grooming can be changed over time, just ask Scott Peterson.
-PJ
"I think you're right about the skin folds on the face. Grooming can be changed over time, just ask Scott Peterson."
My point here re the grooming was that he was well groomed as a college student versus his Jihadist buddies and that has continued to today.
Our lunch guests yesterday were assigned to our Iranian Embassy in the early 1960's. We discussed this situation and the grooming. They said his hair style and clothing was rare for the Arabs in Iran, except those who came from wealthy families. His grooming was very normal for the educated and middle to upper income Persians living in Iran.
This couple predicted the Jihadist takeover in Iran in the mid 1960's. That was based on their observation of the Muslim families raising their young boys to hate everyone but other believers. I showed them the collage hoping that they might recognize someone, and they didn't. However, they both agree that his hair style and dress style as noted above was very atypical of the Arabic men in Iran.
The grooming choices and the skin folds as you noted above indicate that we are talking about the same guy in these pictures.