西班牙議員照片遭PS 成拉登近照
A Spanish lawmaker was horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today.
The image using Gaspar Llamazares' photo appeared on a wanted poster updating the US government's 1998 photo of the al-Qaida leader.
FBI spokesman Ken Hoffman acknowledged to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that the agency used a picture of Llamazares taken from Google Images.
In a statement Saturday, the agency would say only that it was aware of similarities between their age-progressed image "and that of an existing photograph of a Spanish public official."
"The forensic artist was unable to find suitable features among the reference photographs and obtained those features, in part, from a photograph he found on the Internet," the FBI said in a statement.
The wanted poster appeared on the State Department Web site , listing a reward of up to $25 million. The FBI said the photo of bin Laden would be removed from the Web site.
Llamazares, former leader of the United Left party, was elected to Spain's parliament in 2000. The photograph of him used to make the wanted poster originally appeared on posters for his 2004 general-election campaign.
He said he would no longer feel safe traveling to the United States after his hair and facial wrinkles appeared on the bin Laden image.
"I was surprised and angered because it's the most shameless use of a real person to make up the image of a terrorist," Llamazares said Saturday at a news conference.
Llamazares planned to ask the US government for an explanation and said he reserved the right to take legal action.
Llamazares said he has "no similarity, physically or ideologically" to bin Laden. They do share one trait, both are 52.
Bin Laden, who is wanted in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the 1998 US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, is believed to be hiding in the lawless Pakistan frontier bordering Afghanistan. His exact whereabouts have been unknown since late 2001, when he and some bodyguards slipped out of the Tora Bora mountains after evading air strikes, special forces and Afghan militias.
日前，美國聯邦調查局以西班牙一名議員的一張網絡照片爲原型，炮製出基地組織頭目奧薩馬•本•拉登的近照，這名議員得知此事後十分震驚。
這張以西班牙議員加斯帕爾•利亞馬薩雷斯爲原型合成的照片被用在拉登的最新通緝令上，以替換美國政府1998年發佈的拉登照片。
美國聯邦調查局發言人肯•霍夫曼在接受西班牙《世界報》的採訪時承認，該機構使用的是一張從“谷歌圖片”上搜索到的利亞馬薩雷斯的照片。
美國聯邦調查局在上週六發表聲明時僅稱，他們意識到這張拉登“近照”與“西班牙一名政府官員的一張現有照片”存在相似之處。
該機構在一份聲明中稱：“負責繪製通緝令畫像的技術人員無法在參考照片中找到合適的特徵，所以就借用了他從網上找到的一張照片中的部分特徵。”
這張通緝令發佈在美國國務院的懸賞網站上，還列出了高達2500萬美元的懸賞。美國聯邦調查局稱將把這張照片從該網站上撤下。
利亞馬薩雷斯是西班牙左翼聯盟黨的前任領袖，於2000年入選西班牙議會。這張被用於合成拉登畫像的照片是他2004年參加競選時使用的照片。
他說，以後他去美國都得擔心自己的人身安全，這張合成照片上“拷貝”了他的頭髮和麪部皺紋。
利亞馬薩雷斯在上週六的一次新聞發佈會上說：“我感到震驚和憤怒。使用真人照片合成恐怖分子的畫像，真是無恥至極。”
利亞馬薩雷斯打算向美國政府討個說法，並稱將保留採取法律手段的權利。
利亞馬薩雷斯稱，他和本•拉登“無論在外表還是思想上都沒有任何相似之處”。他們唯一的共同點就是兩人都是52歲。
本•拉登因指揮策劃2001年的“9•11”恐怖襲擊和1998年美國駐坦桑尼亞和肯尼亞大使館爆炸案受到通緝。據估計，目前他藏身於巴基斯坦和阿富汗之間無法律管轄的交界地帶。自從2001年晚些時候躲開空襲和特種部隊以及阿富汗民兵的追捕後，本•拉登和一些護衛逃離托拉博拉山區，至今下落不明。
Vocabulary:
wanted poster：a public announcement by a law enforcement agency that they desire to question or arrest some person（通緝令）
forensic：pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate（法院的，適用於法庭的）
militia：a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers（民兵）
