The owner of a Sao Paulo drinking hole has turned his accidental resemblance to a certain terrorist into a catering opportunity
Of the many strange sights awaiting England football fans in Brazil, a Sao Paulo bar named after Osama bin Laden and run by a Bin Laden lookalike may be the most unexpected.
According to his tumblr page, Ceará Francisco Helder Braga Fernandes, a Sao Paulo resident since 1978, renamed his bar soon after 9/11. With a long grey beard and thick dark eyebrows, he had been a lookalike without knowing it. But when Osama bin Laden became the world's most wanted man, appearing on TV screens around the world, one alarmed customer called the police to report he was lying low as a downtown barman.
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