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News Powerful Examples of a Huge Failure, Is More Like It
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:25 PM
The FBI and the State Department, which administers the international rewards program called Rewards for Justice, said the enhanced photos were created by forensic artists at the FBI's crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia.The FBI said its artists modified facial features and altered "grooming and cloth choices" in hopes the public might recognize bin Laden or any of the others.
"These new images are powerful examples of how advances in technology and science can be used to help find and bring to justice wanted persons," said Louis E. Grever, the head of the FBI's Science and Technology Branch.
They had to age-progress images of Bin Laden because it's been eight years since 9/11 and we still haven't caught him.
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Are they thinking that we might find that photo useful in case we see him in the local Safeway? Or maybe they think "the public" frequents caves in Afghanistan or Pakistan? Decades-old milk-carton age progressions are "advances in technology"? Geezus.
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Have they raised the reward for his capture? No. I believe it is still fifty million. Why don't they try two hundred million? It would be worth it.
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Well, to be perfectly fair, to find him we'd actually have to be looking for him...and you know nobody was looking for him during the last administration.
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@4, none of the people who are likely to know where he is know the difference between $40 and $200, let alone a million times that. I read about one guy who won a big reward, a few million, and he wanted to know if it was enough to buy a truck.
@3, bin Laden is under a death sentence in Saudi Arabia and would be killed instantly if he tried to go there. He hasn't set foot in that country in decades. The Saudi royals are his greatest enemy, not us. He's in Pakistan, in the ungoverned territories.
@3, bin Laden is under a death sentence in Saudi Arabia and would be killed instantly if he tried to go there. He hasn't set foot in that country in decades. The Saudi royals are his greatest enemy, not us. He's in Pakistan, in the ungoverned territories.
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"They had to age-progress images of Bin Laden because it's been eight years since 9/11 and we still haven't caught him."
Actually, the FBI isn't after him for 9/11. Think that sounds crazy? Look it him up on the FBI's top 10 most wanted profiles and try to find anything about 9/11.
Actually, the FBI isn't after him for 9/11. Think that sounds crazy? Look it him up on the FBI's top 10 most wanted profiles and try to find anything about 9/11.
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I still say bin Laden is worth far more as a bogeyman, at large, both to the past administration and to the present one. Capture or kill him, and you remove the face that haunts the dreams of many simple-minded people, and much public support for the "War on Terror" and its physical manifestations. For better or worse, that's the way it is.
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@6 - so you say. And yet, people do things like that all the time.
The best place to hide is in plain sight.
The best place to hide is in plain sight.
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He may be long dead, but he's still as effective a bogeyman as he ever was while he was alive. How does one catch a corpse anyway?
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"...it's been eight years since 9/11 and we still haven't caught him."
You mean it's been almost a decade since the USS Cole bombing, right? Because, like @7 said, the FBI doesn't believe he had anything to do with 9/11, or they'd no doubt have found the time to add it to the simplistic most wanted page they have for him.
Also, honestly, that image looks like a companion to Roxxxy.
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If only the US could find Mohammed Atta, the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We will need to launch more wars to find him.
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OMG... Osama is... Harvey Fierstein! (Well, have you ever seen them in the same place at the same time?)
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It's been eight years and we still haven't caught him? Do you think that is the worst of our problems? Take a look at this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8463…
It turns out they "age-progressed" him by sticking his eyes onto the face of a Spanish MP.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8463…
It turns out they "age-progressed" him by sticking his eyes onto the face of a Spanish MP.
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