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Osama bin Laden dead: body 'identified by sister's brain'
telegraph.co.uk ^

Posted on 05/02/2011 6:59:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Osama bin Laden dead: body 'identified by sister's brain'

Osama bin Laden's body was identified by US authorities by matching a DNA sample to one taken from his late sister's brain, according to reports.

2:36PM BST 02 May 2011

When his sister, who has not been named, died from brain cancer several years ago in Boston the FBI immediately subpoenaed her body so that it could later be used to identify the al-Qaeda leader if he was caught, it was claimed.

The brain was preserved and tissue and blood samples taken from it were used to compile a DNA profile, ABC News reported.

The tissue sample was reportedly then matched to the DNA of the man shot dead by US troops in a raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.

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1 posted on 05/02/2011 6:59:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

This case has been handled in a most unusual way.


2 posted on 05/02/2011 7:01:40 AM PDT by Redalways
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To: Sub-Driver
First thing I thought of upon reading the headline was that his sister's brain by itself identified him.



3 posted on 05/02/2011 7:02:14 AM PDT by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
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To: Redalways

“This case has been handled in a most unusual way.”

Maybe that is because OBL is not the typical American bank robber?


4 posted on 05/02/2011 7:05:01 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Yes We Can, have smaller government)
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To: Sub-Driver

Our state crime lab takes 8 weeks to do a fast-turn on DNA testing. But this analysis was done in several hours or less? Color me skeptical.


5 posted on 05/02/2011 7:05:42 AM PDT by wrench
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Our state crime lab takes 8 weeks...

Backlog? DNA analysis can be done in one day if one really wanted to.

6 posted on 05/02/2011 7:08:43 AM PDT by Rokurota
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To: wrench
Our state crime lab takes 8 weeks to do a fast-turn on DNA testing.

Union workers.

7 posted on 05/02/2011 7:09:12 AM PDT by CMAC51
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To: Sub-Driver

How many offspring do the Muzzies usually have? Was it not rumored that OBL himself had 20+ kids? So did we kill OBL or one of his look-a-like siblings?

The world will never know.


8 posted on 05/02/2011 7:10:18 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: wrench
Color me skeptical.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
9 posted on 05/02/2011 7:11:54 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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10 posted on 05/02/2011 7:12:53 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Was it not rumored that OBL himself had 20+ kids? So did we kill OBL or one of his look-a-like siblings?

Apparently OBL was #17 of about 50 children from one father.

I say we kill ALL of them just to drive the point home!

11 posted on 05/02/2011 7:13:18 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: arderkrag

military coroner: Is this your brother?

sister’s brain: Yes, that’s him.


12 posted on 05/02/2011 7:13:26 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Sub-Driver

This one takes the Cake over the Murray Fed building bombing in Oklahoma City, TWA 800, Vince Fosters Suicide in Ft Marcy park. oh and lets not forget Waco, Texas. And folks wonder why I’m skeptical.


13 posted on 05/02/2011 7:14:47 AM PDT by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: Sub-Driver

What??? In other cases, the FBI has said DNA identification takes weeks. You mean these Navy Seals were prepared to do this on site? I figure they knew who he was when they shot him, and this is just another government CYA story.


14 posted on 05/02/2011 7:15:45 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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15 posted on 05/02/2011 7:15:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LOL!


16 posted on 05/02/2011 7:15:53 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Saddam was not a bank robber either, yet we have video and photographs.


17 posted on 05/02/2011 7:19:05 AM PDT by Redalways
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To: Sub-Driver

With Obama there are no answers, only more questions. This is so weird. When OBL was killed seems to ge at question. How the body was disposed seems to be at question. Why, just minutes after the death is announced are a lot of young folks screaming in front of the White House? Where are the scene photos? Where is the SEAL video and audio records? Etc, etc.


18 posted on 05/02/2011 7:19:14 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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To: wrench

When someone of a high-enough rank comes in and says “I want this RIGHT NOW” things tend to not take very long.

Besides, if you were a DNA analyst and somebody handed you a sample and said “Tell me if this is Osama Bin Laden,” wouldn’t you make it top priority?


19 posted on 05/02/2011 7:19:14 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Sub-Driver

This one takes the Cake over the Murray Fed building bombing in Oklahoma City, TWA 800, Vince Fosters Suicide in Ft Marcy park. oh and lets not forget Waco, Texas. And folks wonder why I’m skeptical.


20 posted on 05/02/2011 7:20:34 AM PDT by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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