Remember the tall Afghan guy Bush slammed with a Hellfire missile?

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Whatever happened to that deal? The DNA ever come back yet?

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/11/ret.afghanistan.search/index.html

U.S. checking clues from Afghan airstrike site

February 12, 2002 Posted: 1:11 AM EST (0611 GMT)

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Military investigators have found documents, weapons and human remains that could determine if a recent U.S. airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed top al Qaeda officials, Pentagon officials said Monday.

The mission was completed Monday afternoon at the site, Maj. A.C. Roper said. The evidence will be turned in for DNA testing at a forward military operations base in northern Afghanistan, he said.

About 50 U.S. soldiers and forensics experts searched the scene in Zawar Kili in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan where an armed CIA drone scored a direct hit February 4 on a group suspected to be top al Qaeda officials.

The aftermath of last week's attack drew widespread speculation that Osama bin Laden might have been among those in the group, because the men on the ground were described as wearing white robes and one of them was tall, as is bin Laden.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was asked at a briefing last week whether evidence suggested the man suspected of orchestrating the September 11 attacks was among those killed.

"We just simply have no idea," Rumsfeld said, but he would not rule out the possibility.

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1. His name was Daoud

I wish I remembered the source article, but I remember most of the details. He and a companion were travelling from their village to a nearby valley where a "terrorist training camp" had been destroyed. Their purpose was to collect scrap metal to sell, as he had a wife and family to support and was unemployed.
Anyway, blown to bits. The reporter who wrote the story arrived in Daoud's village a week or so after the CIA people. The villagers reported that the CIA had suitcases full of hundred dollar bills they handed around to the distraught, though the widow would neither accept money or open the door to speak to them. A needless tragedy...