So whats up with Moussaoui’s beard? In news clips, the drawings show this guy as having the thickest beard next to ZZ top and a skull cap. But in the real photos after 9/11, this guy has a small goatee, and no hair on his head. Did he really grow it that fast, or are the artists rendition of him exageratted to give him the “terrorist look”? Check the frontpage on MSNBC.com, that beard is frickin’ crazy huge!
I don’t know what his beard looks like now, but a poster in the Moussaoui BBQ Pit thread described it as a Salafi-style beard. I suppose they may follow a rule about not shaving or trimming their beards. The September 11 hijackers did shave their beards in order to blend in better, and Moussaoui may have adopted a more ‘normal’ style, too.
This article has a picture from 2002. He has a full, apparently untrimmed beard there.