US to take DNA from al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners

American authorities are planning to take DNA from al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners in a bid to create a databank of their genetic fingerprints, it was revealed today.

The plan has been put forward by federal authorities frustrated that they are unable to properly identify many of the thousands of detainees in American and Afghan hands, including the 300 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.