Face Recognition Software Identified Osama Bin Laden, But US Official Says Skull Was Blown Away

The New York Times writes the Navy Seals used uploaded photos of Osama Bin Laden so US intelligence could run the images through face recognition software to confirm the kill.

On a moonless night eight months later, 79 American commandos in four helicopters descended on the compound, the officials said. Shots rang out. A helicopter stalled and would not take off. Pakistani authorities, kept in the dark by their allies in Washington, scrambled forces as the American commandos rushed to finish their mission and leave before a confrontation. Of the five dead, one was a tall, bearded man with a bloodied face and a bullet in his head. A member of the Navy Seals snapped his picture with a camera and uploaded it to analysts who fed it into a facial recognition program.

This is interesting because an US official claims the skull was blown to pieces which may make face recognition impossible.

A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden was shot above his left eye, blowing away part of his skull.

The precision kill shot was delivered by a member of Navy's elite SEAL Team Six during a pre-dawn raid Monday on bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan.

I guess the images the White House releases later today will give us more insight into this, but these two stories combined do cast some doubts in Obama's Osama Bin Laden tale.