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FBI ERRS IN BIN LADEN PICTURE

According to the FBI’s web page, the FBI uses the latest age progression technology to facilitate arrests. But this time they goofed big time. Age progression photography is updating the picture of a suspect to attempt to determine what a person looks like in the present, based upon pictures of how the person looked in the past.

Wikipedia defines it as “[a]ge progression is the process of modifying a photograph of a person to represent the effect of aging on their appearance.” The State Department wanted an updated picture of Bin Laden. The most recent picture they had was ten years old. While we might expect the FBI to use the latest age progression technology to update the picture, they did not. Generally it is either done digitally or a specially trained artist does it using pictures of the person. Instead they found a picture on the internet and used it. For some unexplained reason they chose the picture of Spanish Parliament member, Gaspar Llamazares.

Besides the lack of the picture’s scientific legitimacy how would you like to be Llamazares. You are walking down the streets of Madrid, knowing that the US government has a 25 million dollar reward for the arrest of Bin Laden, and someone yells out “There’s Bin Laden. Or better yet you are trying to get through airport security and you try to convine the security guard that you are not the real Bin Laden.

Llamazares says he is afraid to travel to the United States and he is considering legal action against the government.
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