Bin Laden death proved
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June 19, 2011, Sunday
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FEDERAL authorities used DNA from "multiple family members" and facial recognition technology to identify the body of Osama bin Laden, according to court papers filed Friday that formally dropped terrorism charges against the slain al-Qaida leader.
The papers detail the CIA's painstaking efforts to make sure the man killed May 2 during a raid of his compound in Pakistan was bin Laden.
After the raid, US forces collected DNA from bin Laden's body and took it to a base in Afghanistan, said a statement signed by a top US counterterrorism official, Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Z. Toscas.
CIA personnel there compared it "with a comprehensive DNA profile derived from DNA collected from multiple members of bin Laden's family," the statement said. "These tests confirmed that the sample (from the raid) genetically matched the derived comprehensive DNA profile for Osama bin Laden."
The CIA used the facial recognition technology to compare old photos of bin Laden to photos of his body and concluded "with high confidence that the deceased individual was bin Laden."
The papers filed in federal court in Manhattan officially ended a case that began with hopes of seeing bin Laden brought to justice in a civilian court.
This week, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan signed off on a request made by federal prosecutors to dismiss the charges -- a formality when defendants under indictment die.
The papers detail the CIA's painstaking efforts to make sure the man killed May 2 during a raid of his compound in Pakistan was bin Laden.
After the raid, US forces collected DNA from bin Laden's body and took it to a base in Afghanistan, said a statement signed by a top US counterterrorism official, Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Z. Toscas.
CIA personnel there compared it "with a comprehensive DNA profile derived from DNA collected from multiple members of bin Laden's family," the statement said. "These tests confirmed that the sample (from the raid) genetically matched the derived comprehensive DNA profile for Osama bin Laden."
The CIA used the facial recognition technology to compare old photos of bin Laden to photos of his body and concluded "with high confidence that the deceased individual was bin Laden."
The papers filed in federal court in Manhattan officially ended a case that began with hopes of seeing bin Laden brought to justice in a civilian court.
This week, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan signed off on a request made by federal prosecutors to dismiss the charges -- a formality when defendants under indictment die.
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