bin Laden identity confirmed with facial recognition (Washington Post)
U.S. forces flew to bin Laden’s hideout in helicopters about 1 a.m. Monday (late Sunday afternoon in Washington). Bin Laden was shot in the head after he and his guards resisted the U.S. attackers, the Associated Press reported. U.S. personnel identified him by facial recognition.
UPDATE: Looks like it was post-mortem (Politico) - way down at the end...
U.S. forces took photographs of the body, and officials used facial-recognition technology to compare them with known pictures of bin Laden.
