Wired
By: Spencer Ackerman
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The U.S. forces that killed Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound were more than expert marksmen. Some of them were forensics experts as well, using sophisticated tools to ensure that they got the right man.
Speaking at a White House briefing, counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said he had “99 percent” certainty the commando team killed bin Laden, thanks to “facial recognition, [his] height, [and] an initial DNA analysis.”
The initial DNA analysis appears to have been done far from the scene, by “CIA and other specialists in the intelligence community” on Monday, according to an intelligence official briefing Pentagon reporters, and it returned a “virtually 100-percent DNA match.” Press reports say the DNA used to identify bin Laden may have…
If all of this seems like the Joint Special Operations Command is acting like a federal SWAT team, that’s not by accident. These days, special operations teams “have FBI representation on them,” says Ali Soufan, a former FBI counterterrorism agent who hunted al-Qaida before and after 9/11. The FBI might not go on raids with the commandos, but back at the base, “they do the fingerprints, they can do the DNA [analysis] and collect the evidence…”
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