FBI Crime Lab to Test Al-Zarqawi's DNA

Biological samples from the bodies of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his associates were delivered Thursday night to the FBI crime laboratory in Quantico, Va.

``Biological materials listed as being from three different individuals, including al-Zarqawi, were received at the FBI laboratory,'' said special agent Ann Todd, the lab's spokeswoman. ``FBI laboratory scientists will be working around the clock to conduct genetic testing.''

DNA tests will compare the sample from al-Zarqawi, which was flown with the other biological material from Iraq on military aircraft, with another sample also known to be from the terrorist leader, said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko. The results are expected in three days. Neither he nor Todd would discuss where or how the FBI found a different DNA sample from al-Zarqawi.

U.S. authorities have already fingerprinted the body to confirm it is that of the terrorist leader, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike on a safe house north of Baghdad. ``Doing DNA is just kind of like crossing the t's, dotting the i's,'' Kolko said. ``It's the last step in the process to absolutely confirm the identity.'' ``We are absolutely confident it is him.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5874294,00.html

.... from Niger?

anything? It could be Jimmy Hoffa's DNA for all we know.

I think Al-Z and Osama are figments of Bu$h's overactive, coke-addled imagination. They've been long dead, and on ice.

If they ever get around to catching Bin Laden they'd be able to identify him (you know, to distinguish him from all the other 6'4 lefthanded saudi corpses with bad kidneys they have lying about) since they have known family members they could do DNA comparison on, but it's a bit much to expect us to believe that al-Zarquawi left his toothbrush at the hotel or something and they happened to find it and confirm that it's his. I'd be willing to suspend disbelief if this was CSI Baghdad (CBS if you use that I want royalties) but in the real world that's a bit of a stretch.

take 4-6 weeks to get toxicology reports on a drunk cop who kills a couple of citizens in a car crash?

edited due to my inability to spell 'two'.

Richard Jewel's mother her Tupperware back.....

or Hindu and Moslem women on the Indian Subcontinent. I mean Moslem men in the Middle East

The military says they have identified Z by scars and tatoos? If tatoos are common, let me know if they get them for cultural reasons - or fashion reasons. Educate me. Thanks.

I know most Coptic men have one on the inner forearm of a rectangle with a dome topped with a cross. I did read somewhere (Guardian?) that tattoos were getting very popular in Afghanista and Iraq in imitation of US/UK soldiers' tatts! The young men saw them as "cool".

If "Neither he nor Todd would discuss where or how the FBI found a different DNA sample from al-Zarqawi."?

Bring back the Monkees! I'm a Disbeliever!!

Seriously though, we have the DOD (still) investigating themselves over war crimes (the few that have alas leaked out) in Iraq. Now the FBI, repeatedly demonstrating suborning and incompetence in the last say six years will be the authority for a DNA test on Zarqawi?

An unfunny joke, I'd call it.

Even the joke part doesn't work so well when we know the corporate media is all pro- or afraid of Bush.

the whole time?

Why then did we mistakenly report his amputation, his deaths at last twice and him being seriously injured? How did we manage to capture and then release him "by mistake"?

WTF took us so long to catch some guy who was supposedly actively warring against us in a huge desert when he knew everything distinguishing about him? Where the hell was he hiding? How the hell was he hiding?