Osama Bin Laden's photo updated!

The US State Department has updated its 1998 file photo of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, digitally altering it to account for a decade of age and possible changes in his facial hair.

There is a $25m bounty on bin Laden's head for the September 11 2001 attacks and the 1998 US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya.

Bin Laden is now 52. And he is believed to be hiding in the lawless Pakistan frontier bordering Afghanistan.

His exact whereabouts, however, have been unknown since late 2001, when he and a small contingent of bodyguards walked out of the Tora Bora mountains, evading air strikes and US special forces and Afghan militias.

The photos and bounty on bin Laden is on the State Department's website.

Posted: at 16-01-2010 10:27 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming

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Posted: at 16-01-2010 10:55 PM (15 years ago) | Grande Master

Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden tried to covertly buy weapons from the former Yugoslavia in the 1980s, but was turned down, according to an investigation by the Belgrade daily Blic on Tuesday.

The weapons were intended for Afghanistan, where Islamist rebels were fighting the forces of the Soviet Union.

Quoting a source from the state-owned arms manufacturer SDPR, the newspaper said Osama "walked in unannounced on June 25, 1986, and simply said 'I want to buy that and that'", the unnamed source said.

Bin Laden's "wish list" included anti-aircraft missiles, machine guns, mobile radar units, ammunition for rifles and machine guns, as well as communications and jamming gear, all intended for the resistance of Soviet troops in Afghanistan.

He reportedly offered $100m in cash for the purchase, but without any paperwork or recorded official meetings, the source said.

"Talks ended before they began. Yugoslavia had strong positions in the global weapons trade, with ... significant profits, so Bin Laden's offer was not too difficult to resist," the source said.

The Blic report is a follow-up on Sunday's story by Croatia's daily Vecernji List, which produced a document, market "military secret" and "top secret", on Osama's attempt at buying weapons.
 

Posted: at 17-01-2010 12:24 AM (15 years ago) | Upcoming

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Posted: at 17-01-2010 02:26 PM (15 years ago) | Grande Master

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Posted: at 17-01-2010 06:50 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming

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Posted: at 18-01-2010 10:07 AM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

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Posted: at 18-01-2010 05:36 PM (15 years ago) | Addicted Hero

    

Posted: at 18-01-2010 09:23 PM (15 years ago) | Gistmaniac

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Posted: at 21-01-2010 06:45 PM (15 years ago) | Upcoming

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Posted: at 22-01-2010 07:58 AM (15 years ago) | Hero