It is a pretty good bet that we have NO DNA to use to match many other Tabliban and Al Qaida leaders.
We are trying to figure out which if any of the Taliban leaders are dead and which are alive. According to this story they are still working on it. If identity could be determined with DNA, it would have been done months ago. It is obvious they are trying to prove some peoples identities with a rebuilds of facial features from skulls. We may have pictures of some of them or more likely people who knew the Al Qaida we have killed. We most certainly have people who might identify some of them from facial rebuilds.
A few years ago I was briefed by a US Army Colonel who had been a liason officer with the Afghanistan Army when they were fighting the Soviet Union. He could certainly identity their commanders from facial rebuilds. I suspect we have many such people in our military and CIA.
It should be obvious to all but the most mentally retarded that our government would not go to a facial restructure artist if we had DNA from these people to compare with the DNA from the skulls or other bones. We have the skulls. No one denies that. We have the DNA from the skulls. What seems certain is we have no other source of DNA from these people from which to find a match. The Defense Dept has no ability to facial restructure from skulls. That means to try to idenify the remains our government had to go to the FBI which in turn went to an anthropologist to do facial rebuilds. That would not be done to identify Osama.
If the Government were trying to cover it up, the DNA tests would have been done by the DOD. Then the DOD people would have been ordered to lie. Military personel are under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. When a commander tells a military person to lie for "national Security" and he choses to tell the truth, he can be imprisoned or put to death. The least such a leaker could hope for is a dishonorable discharge, loss of pension, and an unfavorable job recomendation. People leak to gain, not to lose. Military Secrets are easy to keep. CIA secrets are not quite as easy to keep. FBI secrets are even harder to keep. Smithsonian institute secrets are not kept very weill at all.
As soon as skulls got out to the control of the Military you know it could not be a conspiracy to hide the death of bin Laden. The media may be dumb, but our Military is smart. If the military is told to keep something a secret, it will be kept a secret. The Smithsonian is laden with leftists who would not hesitate 10 seconds to leak that the Bush administration is lying.
It is obvious that the source of this story is the Smithsonian. They don't have anything to embarrass the Bush administration with, but that does not stop them from trying to insinuate conspiracy.
The author figures his readers are a couple of brain cells shy of a thinkging machine. It is fun for him to go to the Washington Press corp and brag how many stupid idiots fell for his story.
Typical of MSNBC they report a story that has been covered before. They play straight forward news for conspiracy. They believe their viewers and readers are too dumb to figure it out.
Can you imagine the word spreading amongst the simple, ignorant peaple, when shown a picture of the reconstructed face?
CIA Interregator: "Is this Omar?"
Taliban Mooslim Detainee: "Aiiieee! It is Omar! But he is dead. I saw heem killed in Tora Bora."
CIA Interragator: "That's right. We found his grave, dug him up and re-created him. We did this so we could imprison him for his natural life. After he dies a second time, we're gonna do it again. Now were is Osama, baby."
Or until an adolescent congressional aid gets hold of it. Good analysis.