The big problem with catching Osama bin Laden is that everyone has forgotten what he looks like. That, or he’s hiding in an ungoverned quarter of Pakistan. One of those two. Just in case it’s #1, the FBI has put out new photos of what the world’s most wanted man might look like today. Here’s the FBI’s best shot of our man pre-9/11:
And here he is as he might be today… perhaps living on your street, caring for your children, or maybe just hiding out in some ungoverned corner of Pakistan:
Whoa! I mean… who’d have believed it? Look at the guy. It’s almost impossible to think it could be the same person. For a start, he has got rid of the blanket over his shoulder. And everyone (MI6, CIA) thought that the Bin-man wouldn’t go anywhere – like, for example, a well-guarded cave in an ungoverned quarter of Pakistan – without his beloved safety blanket. He’s like Linus in Peanuts: no blanket, no identity.
And the turban!!! Where’s the cheeky bit of extra cloth flapping about? Gone. Is there nothing this man won’t do to hide his whereabouts? He’s even started wearing (look closely) a brown shirt with a silver floral pattern! Lucky the FBI put that photo out. Without it, hell, anyone could have stumbled upon a well-guarded cave somewhere in, ooh, the Afghan-Pakistan border area, and met this blanket-free, small-turbaned, crap-shirted dude and thought “hey, isn’t that… no, my bad, that’s definitely not OBL. No resemblance. Sorry about that fine sir, I’ll be on my way…”.
