FBI to conduct test on Zarqawi's biological samples

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation will conduct genetic testing on the biological samples of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the insurgent leader killed Wednesday in Iraq, media reports said Friday.

Biological samples from the bodies of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his associates were delivered to the FBI crime laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, on Thursday night, and scientists there would conduct genetic testing on the samples, the Associated Press reported.

The DNA tests would compare the sample from al-Zarqawi with evidence taken from other terrorist safe houses, which would help to establish where he had been and find out who had been with him, John Miller, the FBI's assistant director in charge of public affairs, was quoted as saying.

The results were expected in three days.

The U.S. military has identified the body of al-Zarqawi by fingerprints, tattoos and scars.

Al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born and the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, was killed along with several of his followers in a U.S. air strike Wednesday evening near Baquba, 60 km north of Baghdad.

Source: Xinhua