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From: Sam Sloan <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] RE: Sloan's Thesis as to the Origin of English People
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:43:20 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20060603154535.01cb02c0@samsloan.com>


At 03:45 PM 6/3/2006 -0400, wrote:
>I have just found the following link
> http://www.matthewleeming.com/pages/alex.html
>
>I haven't had time to read it all - it looks like testing was being planned
>for exactly the people you have described.
>
>Gareth

In response to my posting about the survey above, I just received a reply
from Richard Strand who is mentioned in the above website and who is on my
email list. He provides the following shocking news:

--- In , "Richard F. Strand" <strand@...> wrote:
>
> Regarding genetic testing of Nuristanis, I assisted Matthew
> Leeming in obtaining cheek-swab samples from Nuristani soldiers in
> Jalalabad a few years ago, but he had to return to England and
> left the samples in my office there, never to be retrieved. I
> don't know where that project stands at this date.
>
> Richard Strand

My goodness! I cannot believe this.

You have got the secrets to the origin of humanity sitting in a jar in your
office in Jalalabad for the past two years completely forgotten.

Meanwhile, for the past several weeks I have been in email contact with the
leading DNA Scientists in the world including Mark Jobling of the
Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, who would like very much
to get their hands on this material.

I assume that you are not in Jalalabad now. Is there any way that you or I
can get this material to the right people who can make use of it?

Sam Sloan

My question now is: Who is the right person? Can cheek swabs taken two
years ago still provide suitable DNA material? Assuming that the cheek
swabs can be retrieved from Strand's office in Afghanistan, who should they
be sent to who can provide a proper analysis?

Sam Sloan

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