{"id":26577,"date":"2011-05-02T23:03:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=26577"},"modified":"2011-05-02T23:03:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T06:03:20","slug":"commandos-use-thumb-and-eye-scans-to-track-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/commandos-use-thumb-and-eye-scans-to-track-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Commandos Use Thumb and Eye Scans to Track Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. forces who 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.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a White House briefing, counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said he had \u201c99 percent\u201d certainty the commando team killed bin Laden, thanks to \u201cfacial recognition, [his] height, [and] an initial DNA analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initial DNA analysis appears to have been done far from the scene, by \u201cCIA and other specialists in the intelligence community\u201d on Monday, according to an intelligence official who briefed Pentagon reporters, and it returned a \u201cvirtually 100 percent DNA match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/05\/csi-bin-laden-commandos-use-thumb-eye-scans-to-track-terrorists\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WiredDangerRoom+%28Blog+-+Danger+Room%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=18250b24-0065-471c-ad8d-4613fc91260f\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. forces who 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 \u201c99 percent\u201d certainty the commando team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[700],"tags":[8799,1127,8690,6888,546],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26580,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26577\/revisions\/26580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}