Facial Recognition
One of the allegations Deghayes faced was that American intelligence analysts had acquired a video-tape that identified Deghayes as one of the individuals in an Chechnyan rebel video tape. However, the opinion of Professor Tim Valentine of Goldsmiths College, a facial recognition expert, is that the face in the videotape could not possibly be Deghayes. It lacks the clearly identifiable marks left by a childhood injury.
Deghayes' lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said that the face in the videotape was eventually identified as a Chechen named Abu Walid. He said the face looked more like Fidel Castro than his client.
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