It is often said that one’s eyes are ‘the windows to the soul’.
Oh yeah? I doubt it.
Take a look at these kindly eyes;
here
Osama bin Laden has what would normally be regarded as kindly, peaceful eyes. In fact, hie whole countenance is rather friendly and peaceful. Hardly what I’d consider to be an indication of what’s in his soul.
Just goes to show you that you really can’t “Tell a book by it’s cover”.
I’m picking on OBL here because he’s such an easy target, but many not-so-nice people in recent history have had ‘nice’ faces.
That’s my opinion, anyway.
Peace,
mangeorge
mangeorge,
look at the way his eyes are slightly squinted and his lower lip sticks out just a bit too far(somewhat pouty like). I definitely sense an ominous presence. Keep looking at it and you will begin to see what I am talking about. He looks like he just finished saying “I don’t give a flyin’ fuck.”
“Kindly eyes”, I disagree wholeheartedly.
So, is “Windows To the Soul” an upgrade to the WinNT/2000 line of Microsoft’s OS, or the Win95/98/ME line?
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Actually, BN, it’s “Windows for Mackintosh”. Gates just couldn’t stand losing that 5% market share.
And heck, Sultan, I thought Idi Amin was santa claus until I noticed he didn’t have a beard.
Peace,
mangeorge
One source says BL had plastic surgery to change his appearance:
http://www.meib.org/issues/9909.htm#me3
“According to a recent report in the Paris-based Arabic weekly al-Watan al-Arabi, exiled Saudi militant Osama bin Laden has undergone extensive plastic surgery to dramatically alter his appearance. The report cites an unnamed senior Western intelligence official as saying that bin Laden, who allegedly masterminded last year’s embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200 people, underwent the surgery in a bid to escape the relentless surveillance by U.S. intelligence agents.”
So are the photos we’re seeing before or after?
I always had trouble seeing Timothy McVeigh as a vicious murdering piece of scum, because he looked like a nice young man. Also, the name “Timothy” doesn’t sound terrifying or cold-blooded. Timmy. It’s a little boy’s name. Still, he was probably America’s worst mass-murderer up until Sept 11 2001.
So hard to see the pictures from Oklahoma, and then look at McVeigh and say “Ah. That’s the man”.
That’s what the neightbors ALWAYS say after some guy goes out and machine guns half the people in town.
I don’t put much stock in such poetic expressions but there is some small element of truth to this one. However, you have to make allowance for the fact that OBL’s expression probably reflects what he was thinking at the time which may have been perfectly peaceful thoughts. If you were introduced to OBL, his expression would more closely reflect what he thought of you and then you might not find him so peaceful looking. McVeigh was an angry person but the object of his anger wasn’t any person in particular. I am a cold blooded killer [sub]of bugs[/sub] but most people who meet me wouldn’t see that in me. Now if I start putting people in the same category as bugs then you’d have cause to worry. If we met and I was thinking bugly thoughts about you, well, depending on how observant you are, I expect you would notice it in my eyes.
Heehee. Bugly.
Are you going to eat all of that?
Ok, enough with the celebrities. I only mentioned those guys as a reference.
Haven’t any of you men (women) later learned that your doe-eyed sweetie (hunk) turned out to be not quite what you expected from looking into her (his) orbs? 
I saw a list once that claimed to tell what the physycal configuration of a persons eyes could tell you about that person. I can’t find it now, but the one I kind of remember is that close-set eyes indicated meaness (or stupidity).
Wide-set eyes meant honesty, IIRC.
Not expression, but genetically programmed stuff.
Peace,
mangeorge
Huh. I wasn’t able to get hold of my Newsweeks from 1993 (I know I have them, they’re just in storage), so niwroc has solved for me the mystery of OBL has looked less ugly in recent pictures than I remembered him.
I dunno. I think that if I just woke up from a ten-year coma, not knowing who OBL was, and was shown a photo of him and told that he was a peace-loving, genial religious leader who had made tireless efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, I’d probably believe it. If I was shown a photo of Tim McVeigh not scowling, and told that he was one of the firefighters who perished in the second tower collapse, I’d probably believe that too. Conversely, I’ve heard too many stories about Diana Spencer being kind and thoughtful and generous to believe otherwise, but if the first photo I saw of her was one of her grimacing because she had a pebble in her shoe, I might believe she was a shrew.
Yasser Arafat seems to smile a lot.
Saddam Hussein often affected what might be called a smile. I was never sure if it was really out of character for him, or if it just looked forced because his face was so fat.
Glad someone brought this up!!! I’ve been thinking about this from day 1. I agree & have mentioned this to people. In fact I discussed this with my Irish buddy while I drove him to the airport this afternoon (damn, he’s gonna be on that flight for 9 hours and I’m talking to him about OBL… DOH!!!).
Anyway, his eyes look kind to me. I felt strange about it from the start. He’s different in this sense from McVeigh. McVeigh looks like a clean-cut guy with scared, mad eyes.
Is it too crazy to think that that’s part of his plan. Islam is not about hate, but what if we simply are the Devil in some people’s eyes? A devil-slayer does not a bad person, make. He’s trying to be their savior. He’s trying to be the good guy & that’s why he tries to look calm, kind, rational (and yet, humble, and even poor & shabby).
$300M, and the brotha lives in a cave? Hmmmmmmmm
JCThunder notes;
You know, that’s a good point, and one I’ve wondered about myself. He could be living the high life in Paris or somewhere (Amsterdam for me ), and he’s not.
Why?
Peace,
mangeorge
There is an estate in Texas on which the desert scenes are filmed. He wears a fake beard to make the video tapes, and is actually a patron of the Dallas Opera.