So, Where Did Comparison DNA Come From?

[anaconda]

I can't wait to hear the tall tale about how they managed to get DNA from family members. Articles in CNN and L.A. times make no mention of it.

 

[SimpleName]

Well I just figure the government has probably had several dozen meetings with all different bin Laden family members. I wouldn't put it beyond the government to take fingerprints and DNA samples after such meetings (secretly), at least for reasons of reference for future events such as this.

 

[Bruno]

Anderson Cooper said they had the body on site for 38 minutes so that was enough time. I believe him!

 

[EndDaFed]

I remember reading somewhere that they had a sample of DNA from one of Tim Osman's brothers.

 

[Cap]

I remember reading somewhere that they had a sample of DNA from one of Tim Osman's brothers.

Donny Osmon?

 

[eduardo89]

He has dozens of children, and his family is a ver prominent and HUGE family.

 

[Clairvoyant]

He has dozens of children, and his family is a ver prominent and HUGE family.

How does that prove anything? If they are comparing it to a family member, couldn't it have easily been anyone else in the family? Nevermind that none of us will ever know if the DNA test was done legitimately. You guys really think the government can't pull someone out of an intelligence agency to fake a DNA test? All you need is a piece of paper with the results and someone with the appropriate credentials saying it's legit.

 

[jmdrake]

It was from one of his clones. That's the only way it can be a 100% match.

 

[emazur]

Matched to what? The U.S. is believed to have collected DNA samples from several of bin Laden's family members during the decade since the terrorist attacks of 9/11. According to an ABC News affiliate in Boston, one of those samples belonged to bin Laden's sister, who died of brain cancer about a year ago at Massachusetts General Hospital; after her death, government officials were reported to have taken some of her brain tissue for genetic testing.

Typical lab-based DNA matching tests like this can take up to 14 days; they're painstaking and need to be repeated several times to ensure the sample's not contaminated from any other DNA sources. But that's not necessarily the only way to do these tests: late in 2010, a University of Arizona team presented research on a machine that can do the analysis in just two hours in a largely automated way. It's possible that knowing they were engaged on a mission to capture bin Laden, U.S. forces arranged for access to a machine like this to be on quick alert — probably for flying blood, cheek cells, and other samples taken from the body to the lab for expedited analysis.

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/...used-dna-to-identify-bin-laden/#ixzz1LKF9npqD

 

[pcosmar]

Considering the rest of the story is fabrication.
I would guess they just made up the match.

They threw a body in the ocean before any possible tests could be done and said it was him.
What is hard to understand?