FBI admits Spanish politican was model for 'high-tech' Osama bin Laden photo-fit
Mr Llamazares said the mistake showed the "low level" of US intelligence services. 16 Jan 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 US 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. Gaspar Llamazares, 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.