DNA tests to confirm al-Qaeda leader's death

sabra

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:28 PM
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DNA tests to confirm al-Qaeda leader's death

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DNA tests to confirm al-Qaeda leader's death

Baghdad - The US military and Iraqi government denied reports on Thursday that al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq had been killed in a raid but said DNA tests would be conducted on bodies recovered after the attack to make sure.

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Dismissing claims by several Iraqi politicians that Abu Ayyub al-Masri and several associates were killed in a US airstrike this week, US military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson said: "We believe he is still alive."

Masri, an Egyptian who is also known as Abu Hamza al- Muhajir, assumed the leadership of al Qaeda in Iraq after Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi died in a US airstrike in June.

"There was a raid recently where we thought he may have been among those killed, but now we think it is highly unlikely," Johnson told Reuters. "We are going to rule out the possibility altogether by doing DNA tests."

DNA tests? :crazy:

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MadMaddie

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:28 PM
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1. So what number is this one number 1, 2 or 3?

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sabra

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:29 PM
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3. this is actually the current "1"

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soothsayer

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:29 PM
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2. on edit: beaten to the question!

Edited on Thu Oct-05-06 01:30 PM by soothsayer

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BattyDem

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:29 PM
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4. A DNA test is useless if there's nothing to compare it to ...

so where did the US Government get the DNA of an al-Qaeda leader? :eyes:

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hobbit709

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:30 PM
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5. And just where

did the DNA samples come from that they're using for comparison?

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dkofos

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:37 PM
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6. Where did they get the comparison DNA sample??

I'm assuming masri (or what ever they call him) didn't
send them a DNA sample with a note saying "for use in
identifying my dead blown up body".

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BattyDem

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:39 PM
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7. Apparently, genes now come with name tags

:eyes:

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TornadoTN

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:39 PM
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8. Great, but sorry GOP, noone is biting

Trot out another #2 or #1 or whatever number you want from the hierarchy, it isn't going to work. Noone is buying your fear anymore and this certainly won't slow down the Foley fall out and resulting implosion.

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Swamp Rat

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Thu Oct-05-06 01:40 PM
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9. So, they got Osama?

This DNA 'test' is utter bull shit unless they can prove unequivocally to whom the DNA belongs.

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