My dad is a criminal defense lawyer. In many of the cases he handles, DNA evidence is crucial. When something needs to be tested, it can take weeks or months to get the results.
We often see similar kinds of time frames in stories of crime on the news. A report will come out that a body has been found and, even when authorities are fairly certain who the deceased is, they send DNA to the state lab for confirmation. It often takes several days to several weeks before the results are known.
Based on this general overall time frame, some people are questioning how in the world the US military definitively could have ascertained that the person shot was Osama Bin Laden before "dumping" his corpse in the ocean. President Obama told us a week ago yesterday that a clear DNA match was made before the body was dumped.
Since the body was dumped within 12 hours of the supposed execution, how were the results available so quickly? Is that scientifically possible?
We often see similar kinds of time frames in stories of crime on the news. A report will come out that a body has been found and, even when authorities are fairly certain who the deceased is, they send DNA to the state lab for confirmation. It often takes several days to several weeks before the results are known.
Based on this general overall time frame, some people are questioning how in the world the US military definitively could have ascertained that the person shot was Osama Bin Laden before "dumping" his corpse in the ocean. President Obama told us a week ago yesterday that a clear DNA match was made before the body was dumped.
Since the body was dumped within 12 hours of the supposed execution, how were the results available so quickly? Is that scientifically possible?
RT,
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-and-the-dna-match/ has in an interesting article on this that shows that it is indeed possible.
Thanks for the link!
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