FBI Alters Spanish MP's Picture, Calls Him Bin Laden

This is ridiculous. Is any wonder that 9-11 happened? Another reason for a new terror fighting agency. The FBI is clearly not up to the job.

in reference to:

"A Spanish politician has said he was shocked to find out the FBI had used his photo for a digitally-altered image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look. Gaspar Llamazares said he would no longer feel safe travelling to the US after his hair and parts of his face appeared on a most-wanted poster. He said the use of a real person for the mocked-up image was "shameless". The Spanish newspaper El Mundo said an FBI spokesman had admitted the agency had taken a picture from Google Images. ...The FBI claimed to have used "cutting edge" technology, but Mr Llamazares said it showed the "low level" of US intelligence services and could cause problems if he was wrongly identified as the Saudi. "Bin Laden's safety is not threatened by this but mine certainly is," he said, adding that he was considering taking legal action. El Mundo quoted FBI spokesman Ken Hoffman as saying 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 posted on the internet. "The technician had no idea whose image he had found and no dark motive for using it," he told the newspaper."
- http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2010/01/fbi-alters-spanish-mps-picture-calls-him-bin-laden.html (view on Google Sidewiki)