Friday, 17 June 2011

Relatives' DNA used to identify bin Laden's body

FILE - This undated image taken from video released by Al-Jazeera television on Oct. 5, 2001, shows Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location. Federal authorities dropped terrorism charges against bin Laden in court papers filed Friday, June 17, 2011, formally ending a case against the slain al-Qaida leader that began with hopes of seeing him brought to justice in a civilian court. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan approved a request made by federal prosecutors to dismiss the charges ? a procedural move that's routine when defendants under indictment die. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Al-Jazeera via APTN, File)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.




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