{"id":467,"date":"2011-05-03T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2011-05-02T07:47:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:47:39","slug":"us-tests-bin-ladens-dna-used-facial-id-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/us-tests-bin-ladens-dna-used-facial-id-official\/","title":{"rendered":"US tests bin Laden&#8217;s DNA, used facial ID: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110502\/ST_19975682.jpg\" alt=\"Osama\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THE United States (US) is conducting DNA testing on slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and used facial recognition techniques to help identify him, a US official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bin Laden was identified by the assault force that killed him in a firefight in Pakistan in which he resisted and was shot in the head, the official said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the DNA tests should be available in the next few days, the official told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The strike force was on the ground for less than 40 minutes and the operation was watched real-time by CIA director Leon Panetta and other intelligence officials in a conference room at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When word came in that the operation was a success, CIA officials in the conference room had a rather large applause,&#8217; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE United States (US) is conducting DNA testing on slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and used facial recognition techniques to help identify him, a US official said on Monday. Bin Laden was identified by the assault force that killed him in a firefight in Pakistan in which he resisted and was shot in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}