New York: 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 today that formally dropped terrorism charges against the slain al-Qaeda leader.
The papers detail the CIA's painstaking efforts to make sure the man killed on May 2 during a Navy SEALs raid of his compound in Pakistan was indeed 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.
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