From Japan Today:

U.S. special forces are cutting off the fingers of dead al-Qaida fighters in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan to clarify through DNA analysis whether accused terrorist Osama bin Laden died in the battle of Tora Bora, The Sunday Times reported. In a dispatch from Tora Bora, the newspaper reported that the fingers will be turned over to the FBI for DNA analysis to clarify whether bin Laden died in the battle. U.S. officials have reportedly already collected DNA samples from members of bin Laden’s family to check for a match, it said. (Kyodo News)

Well, I suppose it