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Saturday, January 16, 2010
'Bin' There, Not Done That
In incredible story, the FBI seems to have taken a photo off Google of a Spanish lawmaker and used it, with some digital manipulation, to show what Osama bin Laden might look like today--and distributed to media, where it was widely used. The lawmaker, of course, not exactly happy about it. That's him as "bin Laden" at left.
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The picture shown at left is supposed to be Bin Laden as given by the FBI; the Spanish politician shares the same hair and forehead. Here you have both pics:
http://estaticos03.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2010/01/16/1263644667_0.jpg
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