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    Viernes 15 de enero 2010 -- Los años también pasan para Osama bin Laden y el FBI, en sus esfuerzos por dar con el líder terrorista, intenta hacerse una idea de cuál será ahora su apariencia con la esperanza de que alguien lo delate. ¿El objetivo? Que alguien reconozca al terrorista, cerebro de los ataques del 11 de septiembre en EEUU y que se sospecha refugiado en las montañas de la frontera afgano-paquistaní, lo delate y las fuerzas estadounidenses logren por fin capturarlo, explica al diario The Times un responsable de seguridad estadounidense. Manipulando digitalmente las imágenes más recientes conocidas, los expertos en fotografía forense de la agencia estadounidense han dado con la que, según ellos, sería ahora la cara de Bin Laden. Eso sí, apenas habría ganado peso y sólo la profusión de canas y alguna que otra arruga más alteran su rostro tres años después del último vídeo conocido en el que aparece el líder de Al Qaeda, divulgado en septiembre de 2007. Según el FBI, Bin Laden seguiría teniendo barba, aunque los expertos en fotografía forense juegan con la longitud de la misma, y camina con bastón. En el vídeo de 2007, el prófugo saudí aparece vestido con su habitual chilaba y una túnica de color beige, además de su turbante. Las imágenes, sin embargo, ya hacen desconfiar del color del cabello y la barba de Bin Laden como una pista sobre su apariencia, ya que, a diferencia de ocasiones anteriores, en la que mostraba una barba canosa, el terrorista aparecía en el vídeo con la barba completamente negra.

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    January 15, 2010 -- The FBI has released digitally enhanced pictures of Osama bin Laden to show how the al Qaeda leader might look now. Bureau agents have produced for the first time a photo of what they think bin Laden would look like now. The picture shows the world's most wanted terrorist without his turban and with a small neat beard instead of the long beard with which he is usually associated. The lines in his face are a little deeper, and he wears a western-style shirt. The photo has been put on the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice website, along with similarly digitally enhanced examples of 17 other most wanted suspects. "It is our hope that these digitally enhanced images will help someone recognise these terrorist suspects and then contact the Rewards for Justice programme with information that leads to their apprehension," said senior official Robert Eckert. The FBI's Louis E Grever said: "The FBI has and will continue to apply cutting-edge forensic, biometric and technical capabilities to our most challenging cases. Together with our many partners, both here and abroad, we now call on the public to help us locate and take into custody those who threaten us." The Rewards for Justice programme was started in 1984 and has paid out more than £50 million for information regarding terrorists or terrorism acts. Its mission, the website states, is "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal and international agencies and partners".

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    Vendredi 15 Janvier 2010 -- Le gouvernement américain a fait réaliser de nouveaux portraits de Ousama Ben Laden le vieillissant afin de tenir compte du temps. Les Etats-Unis ne disposent en effet que de photos datant de plus d’une dizaine d’années du terroriste le plus dangereux du monde. Des procédés de vieillissement numérique ont permis de réaliser deux nouveaux portraits avec deux longueurs de barbes différentes. Les photos ont été réalisées sous la houlette du Département d’Etat et du FBI — qui ne désespèrent pas d’arriver un jour à arrêter le responsable des attentats du 11 septembre et à l’amener devant la justice. Oussama Ben Laden fait en effet partie de la liste des 18 terroristes les plus recherchés par les Etats-Unis, une récompense pouvant atteindre 25 millions de dollars est même proposée pour sa capture. En revanche, sur le site du FBI, Ayman al-Zawahiri, le n°2 d’Al-Qaida, considéré comme le véritable cerveau des attentats de septembre 2001, n’a pas droit à de tels égards : une seule vieille photo pour un homme dont la mise à prix est aussi de 25 millions de dollars, à égalité avec Oussama…

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    Viernes 15 de enero 2010 -- El hombre que aparece en la imagen de la izquierda podría ser, más o menos, Osama bin Laden. Así lo cree el Gobierno de EEUU, que maneja este 'retrato robot' del FBI en la búsqueda del líder terrorista. Pero... ¿qué pinta a su derecha Gaspar Llamazares? ¿Un 'lapsus' del redactor de ELMUNDO.es al hacer el montaje? Esta vez no. Fíjense en el pelo de ambos: grisáceo, canoso, algo ondulado... Idéntico. Y no sólo el pelo; también la frente es exacta, con esa arruga que la recorre de sien a sien. Más de un lector, comprensiblemente escéptico, habrá pensado: "¡Ya les han colado un 'photoshop' a los de ELMUNDO.es!". Tampoco. La imagen en cuestión figura en la página oficial del programa 'Rewards for Justice' del Departamento de Estado de EEUU, una iniciativa creada en 1984 para conseguir pistas que pudieran llevar a la captura de terroristas a cambio de cantidades que llegan hasta los 25 millones de dólares (unos 17 millones de euros) en el caso del 'número uno' de Al Qaeda. En concreto, esta fotografía de Bin Laden –sometido al castigo del tiempo casi una década después del 11-S– se atribuye en el sitio web al FBI. Pero es aún una gran incógnita cómo llegó alguien de esa agencia a colocarle al terrorista saudí, como si de un 'click' de Playmobil se tratara, el pelo del antiguo coordinador de Izquierda Unida (IU).

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    Una fuente del gabinete de prensa del Departamento de Estado confirmó a ELMUNDO.es que el 'retrato robot' es obra del FBI. También expresó su sorpresa. "¿Y estás seguro de que es un político español?", dijo al enterarse de la coincidencia. "Me alegro de que no sea cosa del Departamento de Estado, sino del FBI, y me alegro también de no estar en la piel de quien haya hecho esto". Desde la Oficina de Seguridad Diplomática – entidad responsable del programa 'Rewards for Justice' – el portavoz David Bates reconoció que aunque el sitio web dependía del Departamento de Estado, la imagen de Bin Laden se creó en los laboratorios del FBI. "Varias agencias de seguridad estadounidense participan en la iniciativa. Los laboratorios del FBI actualizaron su fotos de Bin Laden y de paso decidieron ofrecernos las imágenes para nuestro sitio web". Por su parte, el FBI asumía con orgullo su papel en la creación de la imagen; en un comunicado de prensa sobre las fotos Louis E. Grever, director adjunto para Ciencia y Tecnología, tilda las imágenes de ser "poderosos ejemplos de cómo los avances en la tecnología y la ciencia se pueden utilizar para ayudar a encontrar y llevar ante la Justicia a las personas buscadas". "El FBI tiene y seguirá aplicando de vanguardia forense, biométricos, y las capacidades técnicas de nuestros casos más difíciles. Junto con muchos de nuestros socios, tanto aquí como en el extranjero, pedimos que el público nos ayude a localizar y detener a aquellos que nos amenazan". Queda pendiente localizar al técnico que decidió colocar el pelo de Llamzares en la cabeza de Bin Laden. Mientras tanto, desde IU confirmaron que la imagen de Llamazares de la que procede la nueva 'peluca' del líder de Al Qaeda es original y corresponde a la campaña de las elecciones generales de 2004, según informa Agustín Yanel.

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    January 16, 2010 -- The FBI has admitted using a photograph of a bearded Spanish politician as the basis for a mocked-up photofit image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look now. The U.S. State Department was forced to withdraw the mocked up photo-image, circulated around the world last week, after the discovery that it was not quite as technically sophisticated as the FBI had originally claimed. The digitally altered image of an older and greying Bin Laden was meant to show how the world's most wanted terrorist might now look without his trademark turban and long beard. It was released in a renewed effort to locate him, more than eight years after the September 11 attack which he ordered and directed. But it created an unexpected stir in Madrid when a Spanish MP recognised strong elements of himself in the image and complained to the U.S. Gaspar Llamazares, 52, a member of Spain's communist party and the former leader of the United Left coalition in parliament, said his forehead, hair and jaw-line had been "cut and pasted" from an old campaign photograph. The FBI claimed to have used "cutting edge" technology to reproduce new images of 18 of the most wanted terrorist suspects for the State Department's Rewards for Justice website. But yesterday Ken Hoffman, a spokesman the FBI, admitted that a technician "was not satisfied" with the hair features offered by the FBI's software programme and instead used part of a photo of Mr Llamazares, found on the internet. "The technican had no idea whose image he had found and no dark motive for using it," he said. Mr Llamazares said the mistake showed the "low level" of U.S. intelligence services. It could cause problems for any individual mistakenly seen to resemble the wanted terrorist, he said. "Bin Laden's safety is not threatened by this but mine certainly is."

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    January 17, 2010 -- The U.S. government has withdrawn an age-enhanced image of Osama Bin Laden after admitting it was partly based on a photo of a Spanish politician found on Google. The image of the Al Qaeda leader, as he may look now without the familiar long beard and turban, was put on the webpage of the State Department’s Rewards for Justice programme. The FBI had said it used ‘cutting edge’ technology to create the picture to track down the world’s most wanted terrorist. But it has been withdrawn after a technician confessed it was based partly on a picture of Gaspar Llamazares, a Communist deputy in the Spanish Congress. Llamazares, an ex-leader of Spain’s United Left coalition, has been critical of the U.S. War on Terror and wants Spain’s foreign ministry to ask the U.S. for an explanation. An FBI spokesman admitted Mr Llamazares’s hair and forehead were used. He said: ‘Our forensic artists have a wide variety of generic facial features which they can chose from the programme we use to create these simulated images. 'For some reason one particular technician was not satisfied with the hair the programme was offering and, on their own initiative, decided to turn to the images in Google. What he did is totally irregular.’ The spokesman insisted Mr Llamazares’s image was not chosen intentionally. A spokesman for the United Left said they doubted the photo of Mr Llamazares was used by accident. He stated: ‘We in the United Left do not believe in coincidences.’

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    January 17, 2010 -- A Spanish politician said that he was "stupefied" by the FBI's decision to use his photograph to compose its latest image of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and is considering taking legal action. "Firstly I will ask the FBI for an explanation, which they haven't given me yet, and then I will reserve the right to take legal action," Gaspar Llamazares told CNN . "In the last few days I have seen the security services involved in some very strange things, some major failures, but I would never have believed they could have affected me so directly," he said. Llamazares is a former leader of Spain's communist party Izquierda Unida and is currently its parliamentary spokesman.

    An FBI agent said the organisation was aware of similarities between the image - an "age-progressed photograph" intended to give an updated idea of bin Laden's appearance - and that of "an existing photograph of a Spanish public official". Special Agent Jason Pack said a forensic artist had been unable to find suitable features from the FBI's database of photographs and used a picture from the Internet instead. "The forensic artist was not aware of the identity of the individual depicted in the photograph," Pack said, adding that the image would be taken off the FBI website.

    "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 honour, my own image and also the security of all us," Llamazares said. A spokesman for the Spanish prime minister's office said a Spanish official had suggested to the U.S. embassy in Madrid that it contact Llamazares to explain the matter. The embassy's Councillor for Public Affairs William Ostic said that he telephoned Llamazares on Saturday to apologise for the error.

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