Slain Taliban leader's ID confirmed(but can' t provide visual proof)

[maddezmom]

By ALISA TANG, Associated Press Writer
35 minutes ago

KABUL, Afghanistan - Forensic analysis and other information enabled the U.S. military to verify that a key associate of Taliban chief Mullah Omar was killed in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan last week, a spokesman said Sunday.

The military is "very sure" it killed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani although it can't provide visual proof as his body was "obliterated" in Tuesday's attack on a vehicle traveling through Helmand province, said military spokesman Col. Tom Collins.

A Taliban spokesman has disputed that Osmani died in the attack, and identified another militant it claimed was killed.

Collins said Osmani was the highest-ranking Taliban leader killed by the U.S.-led coalition since the invasion of Afghanistan that ousted the hardline regime in late 2001 for hosting Osama bin Laden. He said Osmani's death would hurt militant operations.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061224/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

Seems odd they don't even have a picture of the vehicle?