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Subject: [DNA] Lessons From One Tragedy May Be of Help in Another.
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:30:45 EDT

Those of you who have been following the DNA processes being use at the WTC
may find this story interesting.

... Bill
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October 15, 2001 Talk about it E-mail story

Lessons From One Tragedy May Be of Help in Another

By ALISSA J. RUBIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- In a shabby building in this depressed Bosnian
town, there may be help for Americans hoping to learn with certainty whether
their loved ones died in the World Trade Center attack.

Not far from here, a crime of similar dimensions occurred. It was the most
appalling massacre during the Balkan wars of the past decade: the July 1995
murders of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in and near the town of
Srebrenica.

Much like the victims of the New York attack, they were buried in mass
graves, their bodies fragmented and, in some cases, burned beyond
recognition. Now the dead are yielding up their identities to a team of
Bosnian pathologists, DNA specialists, forensic experts and computer
scientists. The team has potentially valuable technology to share with
Americans: a new computer program that makes it possible to correlate, in a
matter of seconds, DNA from blood samples of surviving relatives with DNA
taken from the bones of the dead.

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