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FBI's new 'Bin Laden photo' actually a Spanish politician

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Monday, January 18, 2010 4:04 AM

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Spanish Lawmaker's Photo Used for Bin Laden Poster

A Spanish lawmaker was horrified to find out the FBI used his photograph as part of a digitally enhanced image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today, he said Saturday, calling into question the crime-fighting agency's credibility in battling terrorism.

Gaspar Llamazares of the United Left party said he would no longer feel safe traveling to the United States after his hair and facial wrinkles were taken from the Internet and appeared on a wanted poster updating the U.S. government's 1998 photo of the al-Qaida leader.

"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 at a news conference Saturday. "It's almost like out of a comedy if it didn't deal with matters as serious as bin Laden and citizens' security."

The FBI said in a statement Saturday that it was aware of the similarities between their age-progressed image "and that of an existing photograph of a Spanish public official."

"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 statement sent to The Associated Press said.

The photo appeared on a U.S. State Department Web site rewardsforjustice.net, where a reward of up to $25 million is offered for bin Laden, wanted in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. The FBI said the photo of bin Laden will be removed from the Web site.

Llamazares said he planned to ask the U.S. government for an explanation and reserved the right to take legal action.

The State Department told a reporter to call back Tuesday after the U.S. federal Martin Luther King Day holiday on Monday.

Llamazares said he couldn't believe it when he was first told about the similarity, but he quickly realized the seriousness of the situation.

The 52-year-old politician said he would not feel safe traveling in the U.S. now, because many airports use biometrics technology that compares the physical characteristics of travelers to passport or other photographs.

"I have no similarity, physically or ideologically, to the terrorist bin Laden," he said.

They do share on characteristic — both are 52.

Jose Morales, spokesman for Llamazares' party, told the Associated Press that no one in Spain had any idea that important security computer images such as the retouched bin Laden photo were built up from photographs of real people. Llamazares, the former leader of his party, was elected to Spain's parliament in 2000.

"A technician has cut and paste in Photoshop a photograph he found out there on the Internet, and you don't have to be in Quantico — the agency's Virginia training facility — to do that," Morales told the AP.

Llamazares said it was worrying to see elite security services like the FBI resorting to such sloppy techniques, especially in the light of recent security alerts like 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.

Bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the lawless Pakistan frontier bordering Afghanistan. His exact whereabouts have been unknown since late 2001, when he and some bodyguards slipped out of the Tora Bora mountains, evading air strikes, U.S. special forces and Afghan militias.

The U.S. State Department Web site shows the photos and bounty on bin Laden and 41 others wanted for terrorism.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9579919

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5i0DbfZd2M
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Quote:

"I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks.”
—Usama bin Laden, CNN, "Bin Laden says he wasn't behind attacks," September 17, 2001
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/16/inv.binladen.denial/
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/obl_int.htm

"We've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming."
—Dick Cheney, "Interview of the Vice President by Tony Snow", March 29, 2006
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-2.html

"Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman. In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained ‘intimate relations’ with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, 'all the way until that day of September 11'.”
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=39376&m=719308#719308

QUESTION: "Mr President, in your speeches, you rarely mention Osama Bin Laden. Why is that?"
GEORGE BUSH JR: "I don't know where he is. I just don't spend that much time on him."
youtube.com/watch?v=ztKKuB2nJa0

"9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”
—FBI agent Rex Tomb, June 6, 2006
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

"I have already said that I am not involved in the September 11 attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other human beings as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. According to my information, the death toll is much higher than what the U.S. Government has stated. But the Bush Administration does not want the panic to spread. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the U.S. system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive. They can be anyone, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia. In the U.S. itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. Then you cannot forget the American-Jews, who are annoyed with President Bush ever since the elections in Florida and want to avenge him. This system is totally in the control of the American Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is clear that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid down by them."
-Usama Bin Laden, Ummat magazine, September 28, 2001
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/obl_int.htm

Usama Bin Laden's funeral: Egyptian Paper Al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osama_dead.html

"He also had dealings with Omar Sheikh [MI6 born in Britain], the man who murdered Usama Bin Laden."
-Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto (assassinated 6 weeks later), BBC interview by Sir David Frost Knight of the British Empire, 2nd November 2007
youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ
http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/151951
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/dec/28/pakistan.topstories33

"The FBI has issued a BOLO on suspected terrorists driving a white delivery van from New York City to the Mexican border. The suspects are using Israeli passports. They are armed and dangerous."
-Knox County TN Emergency 911 Dispatch, Sept 11, 2001, 11am EST
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0622-05.htm

youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw
youtube.com/watch?v=JWpWc_suPWo
www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fiveisraelis.html

14 Israeli "art students" were living in World Trade Center Towers with forged Construction Passes, connection to Mossad spy ring infiltrating every US military base and police agency in USA, arrested and deported from USA after 9/11/2001:
http://www.rense.com/general87/14_1.htm
youtube.com/watch?v=edxYE9sZ5WI

Israel tried to sink USS Liberty to blame Egypt:
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=uss+liberty
http://www.gtr5.com/]


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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 8:14 AM

OUT2THEBLACK


Good find...I especially liked this part of the Yahoo news article on the matter :

'...The FBI has since removed the doctored photo of bin Laden from the site, but Llamazares said he wanted guarantees that the images were not still in the hands of intelligence services at airports or other places abroad.

He said it bothered him to think what would have happened if the FBI had used the photo of an ordinary person, and not a public figure able to draw attention to the matter.

"Most likely an unknown citizen on stepping into an airport would have received a good fright, if not something worse," the politician said. "If this is how security against terrorism is guaranteed, whose hands are we in?"

Llamazares, known as an anti-war activist in Spain, said he also wanted to know if the FBI has a habit of keeping files on leftist politicians in the U.S., Europe, Latin American or elsewhere. He said he doubted the FBI had found his photo by chance on the Internet.'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/ap_on_re_eu/bin_laden_photo/print

Hopefully he will sue , as he indicates that he may...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100116/ts_nm/us_spain_politician_binladen
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"I am stupefied the FBI has used my photo -- but it could have been anyone's -- to compose a picture of a terrorist. It affects my honor, my own image and also the security of all us," LLamazares said.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:04 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Heard about this one. I don't see any conspiracy; again, just a sign of ineptness, or laziness, or both.



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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:18 PM

OUT2THEBLACK


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
Heard about this one. I don't see any conspiracy; again, just a sign of ineptness, or laziness, or both.




Ineptness and Laziness often conspire together .

How do you think you were created ?

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:25 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Gawd, O2B, you really can't offer anything worth reading? And you've obviously got a chip on your shoulder about me...why do you bother, I wonder.



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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:40 PM

OUT2THEBLACK


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
Gawd, O2B, you really can't offer anything worth reading? And you've obviously got a chip on your shoulder about me...why do you bother, I wonder.




'Cause this is a glass house that you're living in...

Don't cast stones , or it'll go the way it always did before...

If you want different results , you have to be different...

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:47 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!


First personal attack goes to ......

OUT TO THE BLACK !!! ... with this little sideswipe "Ineptness and Laziness often conspire together . How do you think you were created ?"

Here's your award: .

Now go away.

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Silence is consent.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:53 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Niki, don't take it personally. That's O2B's infamous MO, and one of the many reasons why peeps think of him (her?) as Out2Lunch

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:58 PM

OUT2THEBLACK


Quote:

Originally posted by rue:
First personal attack goes to ......

OUT TO THE BLACK !!! ... with this little sideswipe "Ineptness and Laziness often conspire together . How do you think you were created ?"


Now go away.




That's because you're not reading enough threads , imbecile...

Like I said , Ineptness and Laziness...Oh , look , here comes another !

StickyNymph

You idiots hanging together doesn't make you look smarter , just more numerous...

That's totally what's wrong with the world .

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:07 AM

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John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


Pirate News interviews Bin Laden:


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