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 DNA samples collected from his body were compared to a comprehensive DNA profile derived from bin Laden’s large extended family.  Based on that analysis, the DNA is unquestionably his.  The possibility of a mistaken identity on the basis of this analysis is approximately one in 11.8 quadrillion. I’ll let you count the zeroes.

— Senior U.S. intelligence official, briefing reporters Saturday on the government’s certainty that the man killed by Navy SEALs a week ago was, in fact, Osama bin Laden