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The newspaper said the image has vanished from the State Department's Rewards for Justice Web site after the FBI admitted it generated the picture not from using "cutting edge" technology as it originally claimed, but by merely altering a photo of a Spanish Communist politician who had criticized the U.S. "war on terror."

FBI spokesman Ken Hoffman told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that an agency technician had simply used a common software program to cut and paste an old campaign photograph of left-wing Spanish politician Gaspar Llamazares into a mock-up of Bin Laden.

"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", Hoffman said.

"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 told The Sunday Times. "It's almost like out of a comedy, if it didn't deal with matters as serious as bin Laden and citizens' security."

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