Bin Laden (98) with the new digitial image

A Spanish politician has blasted the FBI after it was revealed that they had used a photo of his face to produce a digital image of what Osama Bin Laden may now look like.

Gaspar Llamazares, a former leader of the United Left coalition of Spain, described the incident as “shameless” claiming he would no longer feel safe travelling to the US.

The image appears to use a cut and paste version of Llamazares’ hair and jaw line despite having been produced by “cutting edge” technology by one of the FBI’s forensic artists.

Speaking at a news conference Llamazares said “I was surprised and angered because it’s the most shameless use of a real person to make up the image of a terrorist”.

The image was based on a 1998 photo of Bin Laden, however the FBI did admit that certain features had been based on an image “from a photograph found on the internet “, but denied any wrong doing stating that “the forensic artist was not aware of the identity of the individual depicted in the photograph. The similarities between the photos were unintentional and inadvertent.”

Source: BBC News

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