GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said a courtroom artist at his arraignment Thursday made his nose look too big.
No photographers were allowed inside the courtroom, so it fell to artist Janet Hamlin to provide the world with the first image of the al-Qaeda kingpin since his capture in Pakistan in 2003.
Her rendering was reviewed to make sure it didn’t include classified information and wound up in Mohammed’s hands when his defense team was given a look, said Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman. Mohammed wasn’t pleased.
“I heard he said I should compare it to the FBI photo of him,” Hamlin said, clutching a copy of the much-publicized capture photo that showed Mohammed in a T-shirt looking disheveled, right.
Asked whether he had a point, Hamlin said, “I agree totally,” before downsizing his sniffer.
