LEGAL PAPERS IN FEDERAL COURT DEFINITIVELY CONFIRM THAT MAN KILLED IN PAKISTAN RAID WAS BIN LADEN
POLITICO, June 17, 2911—A federal judge has approved a request by prosecutors to officially dismiss all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden. Such requests are procedural and routine in case where defendants named in indictment die.
The order was made public Friday, more than six weeks after bin Laden was killed by the U.S. military in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan.
A statement filed in New York on Friday offers a detailed explanation of how officials went about confirming that the man killed in the May CIA raid is bin Laden.
Using facial recognition technology and DNA collected from “multiple family members,” federal authorities say they have conclusively confirmed that Osama bin Laden was the man killed in the Abbottabad raid — with the possibility that the DNA sample came from anyone other than the Al Qaeda leader pegged at one in 11.8 quadrillion.
The tests confirmed that the sample collected at the house “matched the derived comprehensive DNA profile for bin Laden.”
The CIA also used facial recognition technology, comparing old photos of bin Laden to photos of his body. That analysis ended “with high confidence that the deceased individual was bin Laden.”
The al-Qaida leader was indicted in June 1998 in federal court in Manhattan on charges related to the terrorist attacks on the two U.S. embassies in Africa. It's the only federal indictment to charge him.
The papers were filed by prosecutors so that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan could approve the dismissal of the federal charges against the deceased Al Qaeda leader, as is standard practice for people under indictment who die. Bin Laden was indicted on charges related to a 1993 ambush in Somalia that killed 18 U.S. soldiers, as well as for a role in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in 1998 and 2000 attack on the USS Cole. The charges included conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, conspiracy to destroy U.S. property and use of a weapon of mass destruction.
He had not been charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
After the May 2 raid on bin Laden’s compound, U.S. forces gathered DNA from his body and took it to a base in Afghanistan, where CIA officers compared it “with a comprehensive DNA profile derived from multiple members of bin Laden’s family,” said the statement which was signed by deputy assistant attorney general George Toscas.
The document also mentions that a “significant” amount of terrorist material was found at the Abbottabad compound, including “correspondence between Osama bin Laden and other senior Al Qaeda leaders that concerns a wide range of Al Qaeda issues.”
The order was made public Friday, more than six weeks after bin Laden was killed by the U.S. military in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan.
A statement filed in New York on Friday offers a detailed explanation of how officials went about confirming that the man killed in the May CIA raid is bin Laden.
Using facial recognition technology and DNA collected from “multiple family members,” federal authorities say they have conclusively confirmed that Osama bin Laden was the man killed in the Abbottabad raid — with the possibility that the DNA sample came from anyone other than the Al Qaeda leader pegged at one in 11.8 quadrillion.
The tests confirmed that the sample collected at the house “matched the derived comprehensive DNA profile for bin Laden.”
The CIA also used facial recognition technology, comparing old photos of bin Laden to photos of his body. That analysis ended “with high confidence that the deceased individual was bin Laden.”
The al-Qaida leader was indicted in June 1998 in federal court in Manhattan on charges related to the terrorist attacks on the two U.S. embassies in Africa. It's the only federal indictment to charge him.
The papers were filed by prosecutors so that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan could approve the dismissal of the federal charges against the deceased Al Qaeda leader, as is standard practice for people under indictment who die. Bin Laden was indicted on charges related to a 1993 ambush in Somalia that killed 18 U.S. soldiers, as well as for a role in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in 1998 and 2000 attack on the USS Cole. The charges included conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, conspiracy to destroy U.S. property and use of a weapon of mass destruction.
He had not been charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks.
After the May 2 raid on bin Laden’s compound, U.S. forces gathered DNA from his body and took it to a base in Afghanistan, where CIA officers compared it “with a comprehensive DNA profile derived from multiple members of bin Laden’s family,” said the statement which was signed by deputy assistant attorney general George Toscas.
The document also mentions that a “significant” amount of terrorist material was found at the Abbottabad compound, including “correspondence between Osama bin Laden and other senior Al Qaeda leaders that concerns a wide range of Al Qaeda issues.”
Dear Saint Jake:
Your exposition on DNA analysis is thorough, intelligent, highly plausible and it sounds eminently reasonable. But it's not persuasive because it lacks authoritative support.
As smart and as well informed as you are, I do not take your personal word on the scientific analysis of DNA samples. You are not qualified to speak on it.
That is why, as a prinicple of good debate strategy, the competitor cites sources and authorities.
Since the authority you are citing is "anonymous, this undermines any claim you make for your case.
We do not know anything about his reputation among his peers, his experience in the field, his knowledge of CIA lab procedures and how intimately he is familiar with how this particular DNA sample was treated.
All of these issues make his statements doubtful at best.
On the other hand, the US government Iincluding Congressmen on Intel committees who have security clearances that enable them to receive full briefings, professional journalists (who work for news organizations that will fire them for knowingly writing falsehoods), other nations, including Pakistan, the bin Laden family, the ldearship of al Qaeda, and now the US Federal Court, all are satisfied with the DNA evidence as provided.
So you go ahead and believe what you want to believe. You can certainly follow any theory you want presented by someone with with questionable credentials.
I will go with the word of those who are in a position to know every time.
Especially when the accumulated evidence is so overwhelming.
Bottom line: I see no reason to doubt the word of the President of the United States.
Nice try!!!