BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. military autopsy was finished on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Sunday, but the findings were not immediately released by American officials.

"The autopsy is completed. However, we are not releasing results yet," Maj. William Willhoite told The Associated Press.

Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said officials were awaiting the results of a DNA test.

The examination by two U.S. military forensic specialists flown in specially for the autopsy was part of an investigation to reconstruct the last minutes of the terror chieftain's life before an American warplane bombed his hideout late Wednesday.

U.S. commanders initially said al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, died in the airstrike but later said he survived and died soon after.

An Iraqi man on Saturday raised questions about al-Zarqawi's death, telling AP Television News he saw U.S. soldiers after the airstrike beating an injured man who resembled the dead terrorist leader until blood flowed from his nose.

Casey told Fox News on Sunday that after the allegation was made, the military had "already gone back, looked at it."

"Our soldiers who came on the scene found him being put in an ambulance by Iraqi police. They took him off, rendered first aid, and he expired," Casey said. "And so he died while American soldiers were attempting to save his life. And so the idea that there were people there beating him is just ludicrous."...