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FBI Still Using Bearded, Turbaned Version Of Dubious Bin Laden Photoshop
Justin Elliott | January 19, 2010, 11:15AM
Osama bin Laden, FBI "aged" photo.
The bearded version of an "age-progressed" image of Osama bin Laden that was the source of international embarrassment for the FBI because it was photoshopped from facial features of a top Spanish politician is still posted on a most wanted Web site, days after the FBI said it would be removed.
The bureau apparently did scrap one permutation of its "aged" bin Laden, a beardless version that bore a striking resemblance to left-wing Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares.
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FBI Photoshopped Spanish Pol For 'Aged' Osama bin Laden Picture
Justin Elliott | January 18, 2010, 9:06AM
Osama bin Laden (center), FBI "aged" photos (left and right)
When the FBI released its "aged progressed" pictures of Osama bin Laden last week, the top official in the bureau's Science and Technology Branch hailed the images as "powerful examples of how advances in technology and science can be used to help find and bring to justice wanted persons."
The official, Louis Grever, also referred in a joint FBI-State Department press release to "cutting-edge forensic, biometric, and technical capabilities."
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