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Bin Laden Changes His Face
IslamOnline.net ^

Posted on 10/04/2001 11:33:23 AM PDT by giotto

TEHRAN, Oct 3 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's Northern Alliance (NA), which has been fighting against the ruling Taliban, is claiming that Osama bin Laden has changed his face through plastic surgery to frustrate a massive hunt launched by U.S. and British forces to arrest him.

Bin Laden is still in Afghanistan with a new face and identity, an NA official told the Iranian newspaper, Intekhab, in an interview at Pungsher Valley, in northern Afghanistan.

Various plastic surgery experts trickled into Afghanistan from Chaman, a small Pakistani town, which borders Afghanistan some 250 kilometers from Kandahar, the official, who could not tell what the nationalities of the plastic surgeons were, claimed.

"They might be Arabs or Iranians," he said.

"But we have concrete reports that they were hired on heavy expenses," he added.

"They have totally changed bin Laden's looks," he said, adding that, "this has been done to avoid his arrest by U.S. and British forces."

"We are looking for his current picture, but unfortunately we have not succeeded so far," the NA official said.

"As soon as we find his [bin Laden's] current photograph, we will provide it to the international media," he maintained.

The U.S. claims that bin Laden masterminded the September 11th attacks in Washington and New York, but have yet to release any tangible evidence to prove his involvement in the attacks.

With contributions by IslamOnline.net's Correspondent in Afghanistan, Aamir Latif


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Biometric scanners would still be able to recognize him, because the primary measurement they use is the distance between the eyes. This can not be changed with plastic surgery.
1 posted on 10/04/2001 11:33:23 AM PDT by giotto
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To: giotto
How many plastic surgeons can there be in that town? Round them all up.
2 posted on 10/04/2001 11:36:26 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: giotto
Damm! I guess we'll have to kill them all, just to be sure...

(At least all the TALL ones...)

3 posted on 10/04/2001 11:40:11 AM PDT by null and void
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To: giotto
The CIA can, if they don't have the software already, go to any decent plastic surgeon to get computerized pics of what he'd look like with various nose jobs, cheek implants, etc. They should be able to find a younger pic of OBL w/o a beard. I sure hope they're doing what they are supposed to be doing.
4 posted on 10/04/2001 11:42:03 AM PDT by japaneseghost
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To: giotto
Why does the movie "Spies like us" suddenly come to mind...
5 posted on 10/04/2001 11:43:06 AM PDT by freedomcrusader
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To: Dog Gone
A shave, a business suit and eyeglasses would do wonders. But those thick lips are probably what the surgeons would alter. Someone should do a picture of him beardless, with thinner lips.
6 posted on 10/04/2001 11:43:50 AM PDT by giotto
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To: giotto
I'd like to see some FReeper renditions of what Osama MAY look like now.
7 posted on 10/04/2001 11:44:23 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: giotto
It shouldn't be too hard to spot him. Just look for the tall guy being followed around by a crowd of guys kissing his butt.
8 posted on 10/04/2001 11:44:33 AM PDT by EggsAckley
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If so, I hope they sewed him up with pig gut.
9 posted on 10/04/2001 11:48:08 AM PDT by Ingtar
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To: japaneseghost
I sure hope they're doing what they are supposed to be doing.

Right. Instead of sewing diversity quilts.

10 posted on 10/04/2001 11:48:20 AM PDT by giotto
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To: freedomcrusader
LOL , that was a good won....
11 posted on 10/04/2001 11:48:36 AM PDT by alisasny
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To: giotto
Simple fix here; 'kill 'em ALL' - in Afganastan and throughout the world! NEXT! (got any other problems you need solved!?!)
12 posted on 10/04/2001 11:48:55 AM PDT by harpu
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To: giotto
If we could send some plastic surgeons in under cover, they could perform that sex-change operation on Bin Laden and REALLY change his looks. Wow, from Osama Bin Laden to Osama's Been Un-Laden.

Then we can sit back and watch the fun as he gets shot for trying to tell a bunch of men what to do. No muss, no fuss...

13 posted on 10/04/2001 11:50:15 AM PDT by dandelion
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To: plain talk
I'd like to see some FReeper renditions of what Osama MAY look like now.

Picture the rear-end of a camel...

14 posted on 10/04/2001 11:50:44 AM PDT by austinite
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To: plain talk
Is This Him?


15 posted on 10/04/2001 11:51:15 AM PDT by SpottedBeaver
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To: bin Laden
STAND UP AND TAKE YOUR WHUPPIN' LIKE A MAN, you coward!
16 posted on 10/04/2001 11:51:17 AM PDT by Dominus Vobiscum
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To: giotto
If this is true he should be easy to find. Look for the guy with bandage wrapped around his head or the guy with the clean shaven face and kill him.
17 posted on 10/04/2001 11:52:21 AM PDT by wvnavyvet
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To: giotto

18 posted on 10/04/2001 11:52:41 AM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: SpottedBeaver
It Has To Be Him
19 posted on 10/04/2001 11:54:27 AM PDT by cork
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To: plain talk
I'd like to see some FReeper renditions of what Osama MAY look like now.

Maybe something a little like this?

20 posted on 10/04/2001 11:55:23 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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