I certainly hope so! This is from msnbc:
ACCORDING TO the officials, the DNA must come from a direct maternal relative or from one of bin Laden’s offspring to determine if there’s a link.
The DNA would allow the United States to determine if body parts recovered from the site of an attack Feb. 4 near Zawar Kili in eastern Afghanistan could be from bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski noted that the officials are making the request for comparative analysis and not because of any strong evidence that bin Laden was one of the three people killed in the attack by an unmanned CIA plane.
Pathologists at the Army’s Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC are now analyzing and mapping the DNA of the remains, bits and pieces of bone and flesh, recovered from the site.
The success of the strike has been disputed since three men were reportedly spotted by the CIA drone in the remote mountainous part of Afghanistan.
Villagers near the site claimed the victims were innocent men scouring a former al-Qaida stronghold for scrap metal, while the Pentagon and CIA said they believed terrorists were killed, although they have yet to determine the identities of their victims.
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At the time, U.S. officials said that one of the men was tall and that the others appeared to be deferring to him, raising suspicions that the Saudi Arabian-born head of al-Qaida had been killed.
Since then, U.S. officials have maintained they believe bin Laden is alive although he hasn’t been seen for months.
ACCORDING TO the officials, the DNA must come from a direct maternal relative or from one of bin Laden’s offspring to determine if there’s a link.
The DNA would allow the United States to determine if body parts recovered from the site of an attack Feb. 4 near Zawar Kili in eastern Afghanistan could be from bin Laden, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski noted that the officials are making the request for comparative analysis and not because of any strong evidence that bin Laden was one of the three people killed in the attack by an unmanned CIA plane.
Pathologists at the Army’s Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC are now analyzing and mapping the DNA of the remains, bits and pieces of bone and flesh, recovered from the site.
The success of the strike has been disputed since three men were reportedly spotted by the CIA drone in the remote mountainous part of Afghanistan.
Villagers near the site claimed the victims were innocent men scouring a former al-Qaida stronghold for scrap metal, while the Pentagon and CIA said they believed terrorists were killed, although they have yet to determine the identities of their victims.
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At the time, U.S. officials said that one of the men was tall and that the others appeared to be deferring to him, raising suspicions that the Saudi Arabian-born head of al-Qaida had been killed.
Since then, U.S. officials have maintained they believe bin Laden is alive although he hasn’t been seen for months.