Sunday, January 17, 2010

Osama bin Lopez?

In other "security" news, the FBI has created a photo showing what nutty Osama is supposed to look like after all these years. Oddly enough, he's supposed to look a lot like some lefty politician who hangs out in Madrid--and I don't mean that Mr. Bean dead ringer:

A MOCKED-UP image of how Osama Bin Laden may look today has been withdrawn by the US State Department after the FBI admitted it was partly based on a photograph of a Spanish MP taken from the internet.

The Photofit image of an older, greying Al-Qaeda leader bore a striking resemblance to the left-wing politician Gaspar Llamazares, a member of Spain’s Communist party and a critic of the US “war on terror”. It turned out Llamazares’s grey hair, jaw line and forehead had been simply cut and pasted from an old campaign photograph by an FBI technician.

The FBI originally claimed it used “cutting edge” technology to come up with new images of terrorist suspects for the State Department’s Rewards for Justice website.

However, Ken Hoffman, an FBI spokesman, admitted yesterday that the agency had used a picture of Llamazares taken from Google Images to update the Photofit...
"Cutting edge"? Hah! That "edge" isn't even sharp enough to cut through paper.

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