The US has issued digitised images depicting how al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden might look today, over two years after he was last reportedly sighted.
The al-Qaeda leader is believed to be in hiding in the Afghan-Pakistan border region and was last seen in a video recording released in September 2007.
Using sophisticated digital enhancement technology, the FBI created two pictures - one showing a greying al-Qaeda leader with a trimmed beard and wearing western clothing, and the other depicting him in traditional clothes with a full-length beard.
Bin Laden is wanted by the US in connection with the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon and for the August 7th, 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
Since 2001, bin Laden is purported to have issued some 40 statements including a number of recorded messages and two videotaped recordings.
His aliases are listed as: Usama bin Muhammad bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama bin Ladin, the Prince, the Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, the Director.
The images and those of another seventeen wanted men have been published on the State Department's website.
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