西班牙议员照片遭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 rewardsforjustice.net, 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，美国联邦调查局以西班牙一名议员的一张网络照片为原型，炮制出基地组织头目奥萨马．本．拉登的近照，这名议员得知此事后十分震惊。

这张以西班牙议员加斯帕尔．利亚马萨雷斯为原型合成的照片被用在拉登的最新通缉令上，以替换美国政府1998年发布的拉登照片。

美国联邦调查局发言人肯．霍夫曼在接受西班牙《世界报》的采访时承认，该机构使用的是一张从“谷歌图片”上搜索到的利亚马萨雷斯的照片。

美国联邦调查局在上周六发表声明时仅称，他们意识到这张拉登“近照”与“西班牙一名政府官员的一张现有照片”存在相似之处。

该机构在一份声明中称：“负责绘制通缉令画像的技术人员无法在参考照片中找到合适的特征，所以就借用了他从网上找到的一张照片中的部分特征。”

这张通缉令发布在美国国务院的悬赏网站rewardsforjustice.net上，还列出了高达2500万美元的悬赏。美国联邦调查局称将把这张照片从该网站上撤下。

利亚马萨雷斯是西班牙左翼联盟党的前任领袖，于2000年入选西班牙议会。这张被用于合成拉登画像的照片是他2004年参加竞选时使用的照片。

他说，以后他去美国都得担心自己的人身安全，这张合成照片上“拷贝”了他的头发和面部皱纹。

利亚马萨雷斯在上周六的一次新闻发布会上说：“我感到震惊和愤怒。使用真人照片合成恐怖分子的画像，真是无耻至极。”

利亚马萨雷斯打算向美国政府讨个说法，并称将保留采取法律手段的权利。

利亚马萨雷斯称，他和本．拉登“无论在外表还是思想上都没有任何相似之处”。他们唯一的共同点就是两人都是52岁。

本．拉登因指挥策划2001年的“9．11”恐怖袭击和1998年美国驻坦桑尼亚和肯尼亚大使馆爆炸案受到通缉。据估计，目前他藏身于巴基斯坦和阿富汗之间无法律管辖的交界地带。自从2001年晚些时候躲开空袭和特种部队以及阿富汗民兵的追捕后，本．拉登和一些护卫逃离托拉博拉山区，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（通缉令）

forensic：pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate（法院的，适用于法庭的）

militia：a body of citizen soldiers as distinguished from professional soldiers（民兵）