Osama look-alike arrested twice along Pak-Afghan border

US forces looking for al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden along the Pak-Afghan border areas have erroneously arrested twice an Afghan national who is known to be having a stark resemblance to the international fugitive carrying a 25 million dollar US' reward.

New York, May 1 : US forces looking for al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden along the Pak-Afghan border areas have erroneously arrested twice an Afghan national who is known to be having a stark resemblance to the international fugitive carrying a 25 million dollar US' reward.

Sher Akbar comes from an Afghan village Bagh-i-Metal, which lies in an area where US officials believe Osama is hiding.

Like Osama, Akbar is also over six feet tall and has the same angular nose as Osama.

According to the Dawn, 50-year-old Osama is believed to be six feet four inches to six feet six inches tall and weigh 160 pounds.

The most recent arrest of Osama's look-alike came after Afghani officials reported informants saw Osama moving across the border into Pakistan, near the town of Chitral. "We arrested this man as a result of this investigation, but it's not who you might think it is," the paper quoted a senior Pakistani intelligence official as telling ABC News.

The official further said that an extensive investigation involving Pakistani and intelligence officers found that the look-alike has no connection to Osama, but that local residents had tried to collect rewards based on Akhbar's resemblance to Osama.

ANI