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Bin Laden Changes His Face
TEHRAN, Oct 3 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's Northern Alliance (NA), which has been fighting against the ruling Taliban, is claiming that Osama bin Laden has changed his face through plastic surgery to frustrate a massive hunt launched by U.S. and British forces to arrest him.
Bin Laden is still in Afghanistan with a new face and identity, an NA official told the Iranian newspaper,
Intekhab, in an interview at Pungsher Valley, in northern Afghanistan.
Various plastic surgery experts trickled into Afghanistan from Chaman, a small Pakistani town, which borders Afghanistan some 250 kilometers from Kandahar, the official, who could not tell what the nationalities of the plastic surgeons were, claimed.
"They might be Arabs or Iranians," he said.
"But we have concrete reports that they were hired on heavy expenses," he added.
"They have totally changed bin Laden's looks," he said, adding that, "this has been done to avoid his arrest by U.S. and British forces."
"We are looking for his current picture, but unfortunately we have not succeeded so far," the NA official said.
"As soon as we find his [bin Laden's] current photograph, we will provide it to the international media," he maintained.
The U.S. claims that bin Laden masterminded the September 11th attacks in Washington and New York, but have yet to release any tangible evidence to prove his involvement in the attacks.
With contributions by IslamOnline.net's Correspondent in Afghanistan, Aamir Latif
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