ABC News: CIA changed the appearance of KSM when captured for propaganda value

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/how-the-cia-bro.html



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And just yesterday, an intelligence source told ABC News that the dapper man behind the most successful terror plot against America was not rumpled and disheveled when he was apprehended. He was as well-kept as ever.

But the CIA, conscious of the propaganda value of appearance, messed his hair and pulled his shirt from his pants, leaving us with the image of KSM we have today, and according to days of NSA intercepts, leaving his fellow al Qaeda terrorists chagrined over the changes to their esteemed colleague.

[stillcool]

1. wow...is anything real?

what a truly bizarre world we live in. If I wasn't crazy already, I would be now.

[eagler]

2. Imagine what they could do to someone who looks a little like Osama

[Uncle Joe]

15. Make him look like Nick Nolte after a hard night of partying. n/t

[Hydra]

16. I often wonder when I'll be seeing a white rabbit with a pocketwatch

Bushco's Wonderland...what a place.

[PDJane]

3. Oh, come on.........

You knew that the whole thing was a charade from the beginning, didn't you? Has been since Freud.

[JackRiddler]

5. Freud?

You mean Doktor Sigmund Freud?

If so, how so? As the unwitting founder of modern PR? Or what?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. Don't tell me Freud is mixed up with the Al Quaeada now!

[JackRiddler]

4. I take this as seriously as the Osama beard makeover

Both stories serve to highlight that the before and after pictures look like two different guys. I hadn't even thought about it before, but now with this circulating the two pics look like different guys to me.

[sce56]

11. The darkened beard was photo shopped. The tape is fake!

He starts out normal then when he talks about present day items that make the tape current his picture freezes while the voice is dubbed over a still picture that is of Osama the translation continues on the ticker.

[JackRiddler]

12. Well, yeah...

And given that this "Osama" tape was endorsed as real by the admin and transmitted as such without doubts expressed by the media, and given that they even came up with stories about the "beard makeover," and given the absolute consistency with which all falsifiable statements by the Bush admin have in fact been falsified, the KSM stories (with their own version of a makeover) are to be assumed as fabrications.

[L. Coyote]

7. And, Saddam was hiding in a hole in the ground! And had head lice too.

[sabra]

8. yep, I always found it curious that both Sadam and KSM had a similar appearance @ capture

[Virginia Dare]

10. Curious, that is an excellent description of it...n/t

[L. Coyote]

17. It was a necessary bit of propaganda, to reinforce the previous lies. Piled higher and deeper ...

to near cosmic proportions :rofl:

Watch the film "Stupidity" if you can find a copy. It provides a lot of perspective wise people lack.

[Virginia Dare]

9. messed his hair and pulled his shirt from his pants

LOLOLOL!!!! Changed his appearance my ass, I bet they did a lot more than that!!! The second I saw that photo, I thought Dude's been drugged and worked over hard. They probably cleaned him up a little bit for that photo.

[Connie_Corleone]

13. They made him look like Ron Jeremy.

[superkia]

14. I almost fell out of my chair laughing! Good one.