What would terrorist bigwig Osama bin Laden look like if he were disguised? According to U.S. News and World Report’s Washington Whisper’s column, that’s a serious question at the National Terrorism Center — and their annual desk calender includes a computerized vision of what what he’d look like after a bit of a makeover:
But that may not cover the world-famous assassins’ strategists options. In fact, over the years since he first hit the infamy bigtime in 2001 the Internet has offered MANY computerized images of what he might look like if he decided to don a disguise. Here are just a few:
And:
Plus:
But what if everyone in the intelligence community and who has a computer is wrong?
What if he’s using a more simple disguise?
For instance, perhaps he’s hiding out at your local supermarket and looks like this:
What’s more likely, though, is that he’s easily blended into America’s heartland and looks just like this:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.