The indictment also says that a search of Mr. Awadallah's apartment turned up computer-generated photographs of Osama bin Laden.
According to a spokesman, James P. Rubin, the computer-generated photograph of the bearer makes the passport much less vulnerable to alteration by criminals.
But the sketches or computer-generated photographs are still only as good as a victim's recollection.
Most prominent is a computer-generated photograph that will be difficult to copy.
Some canvases interpret a visual sensation through the physical addition of collage elements like dried leaves, beans and fragments of computer-generated photographs.
The big, vivid, computer-generated photographs by Chee Wang Ng, for example, show still life arrangements that embody Chinese folk sayings.
When the narrator has a three-dimensional computer-generated photograph taken of herself, she foresees what will happen to her as a result of the shocks she is about to undergo.
A computer-generated photograph by Barry Frydlender shows groups of photojournalists training their cameras on men who appear to be Arab insurgents.
They were devastated in 1990 when newspapers published computer-generated photographs of how Jane, Arnna and Grant would have looked as adults.
Mr. Sills said experience with the computer-generated photographs has shown them to be 80 percent accurate.
