A classified intelligence document has revealed that the United States Defense Intelligence Agency confirmed the slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's identity by conducting a DNA test on his corpse.
The budget files provided by National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden stated that a U.S. military forensic intelligence laboratory in Afghanistan had provided a conclusive DNA match from bin Laden's corpse, shortly after he was killed by Navy commandos in Abbottabad in May 2011, the Stuff.co.nz reports.
The Pentagon had earlier denied holding any such records in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Associated Press a day after President Barack Obama had announced bin Laden's death.
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