When we report on stories such as that one, we take for granted the idea that peoples' bodies can be identified with certainty, not just by their clothing or by their fingerprints, but by their DNA. We can also link criminals to victims or to evidence and we can link people to their biological relatives.
The bin Laden link is overblown, he says, given that the relatives involved in the bank had cut off all relations with the al Qaeda leader in the early 1990s.