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Is america. >> you have to believe that it was a message designed that was not aqap but to warn the united states that an attack was coming. >> reporter: while the raids were not targeting al qaedas top bomb maker, a yemeni government official tells cnn they are conducting a dna test on one fighter killed, a saudi citizen. the dna testing could take days. >> if theres anywhere to hide in yemen, the inaccessible mountains in the south would be a good place to start. >> reporter: al a siri is a to...

Most dangerous al qaeda affiliates and thats aqap. >> because were hearing from yemeni sources that they did kill -- one of these strikes did kill a saudi citizen. theyre doing dna testing. sending the body in effect to saudi arabia to check if this is, in fact, ibrahim al asiri. u.s. officials are being much more cautious. >> until you find out who that individual is, its right to be cautious. the united states has gone down a path of saying yes, an individual was killed and found out several w...

Right now, theres new information on that massive anti-terror operation in yemen. theyre now wondering about one person in particular. theyre doing some major dna testing right now. our mohammed jamjoon has some new information. >> reporter: wash shishy, who is the top bomb maker in aqab -- >> al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> exactly. any plot targeting the u.s. from yemen within past few years, he hasn fingerprints on it. have been trying to capture or kill him for quite some time. theres ...

Qaeda-linked militants that have been killed in the past three days in these various provinces. but whats really even more interesting about it is that now that so many of these men have been killed, the hard work for the yemeni government is really beginning, because many bodies have been taken away to different parts of the countries now. dna testing is under way, because what the yemeni government is trying to do is to identify if any very high-value targets, any core leadership people from t...

Saying we must eliminate the cross. the bearer of the cross is america. >> you have to believe that it was a message designed not to encourage aqap but to warn the united states that an attack was coming. >> reporter: while the raids were not targeting al qaedas top bomb maker, ibrahim al asiri, an official says that they are conducting a dchlna te on one fighter killed, a saudi citizen. could al asiri have been there? the u.s. doesnt think he was but the dna testing could take days. al asiri is...

Spoken with, wolf, in the past three days say there was a direct correlation because the yem yemeni and u.s. governments who have vigorously gone after al qaeda in the araiarabian penins. basically thumbing their nose at the u.s. and yemenis. because of that the yemenis and u.s. have to strike hard and fast and make a point this will not be tolerated. the fact is, we dont yet know how-valued targets in the organization has been killed and the real work is going to be determining through dna test...

President of the united states personally to sign off on using these drones with these hellfire missiles to go in there, target for assassination these individuals. its a big deal when youre going after a big target. do we know if any of the so-called high-value targets were eliminated or killed in this operation? >> what ive been told is that last night there were yemeni special forces, an elite group of special forces, on the ground in a real hotbed for militancy. its surprising enough they we...

>> nope, aint nothing there. >> they said we cant do it because there is no root. the state of dna testing at the time was we cant do anything with it. >> we went to the fbi. because theyre the mac daddy of labs. and we asked them to take a look at it. >> mike malone is the fbi expert. he tested it and he comes up and says oh, yeah, this is mike -- jim ducketts hair. microscopically significant. so you have the preeminent investigative agency saying it is jim ducketts hair. thats powerful eviden...

That. >> as it turned out, the fbis hair and fiber analyst, mike malone had a long history of controversial findings. >> over the years mike malone in many cases has given evidence that through dna testing weve discovered is simply incorrect. recently, the fbi hired an endocrine expert to reexamine mike malones testimony in all these cases because theyre concerned that he is exaggerating. >> for the state to even use the guy was, like, shame on them. shame on them. a jury should have known that ...

Prosecution took unusual steps to connect the pubic hair to duckett. >> the sheriffs department with the hair analysis, shopping it around. the florida department of law enforcement told them, nope, aint nothing there. >> fdle said that hair was probably not mine. 28 out of 30 characteristics didnt match the hair. >> nope, aint nothing there. >> they said we cant do it because there is no root. the state of dna testing at the time was we cant do anything with it. >> we went to the fbi. theyre th...