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Controversy in Lebanon shrouds the DNA test result of Absi
2007-09-07
The first round of DNA tests conducted on Fatah al-Islam's terrorist mastermind Shaker Absi did not match him, media reports said. The report on OTV came as a surprise to the Palestinian Scholars Association (PSA).
Used a double, did he?
Sheik Ali Youssef, a PSA member, on Thursday said the Association did not yet receive any official DNA outcome. "I was shocked at the news that preceded the final results," Youssef told LBC's Naharkom Saeed talk show.

Absi's wife on Monday identified his corpse at the public hospital in the northern town of Tripoli.
Who identified her?
"I'd know those ankles anywhere!"
However, the daily An Nahar on Thursday, citing judicial sources, said state Prosecutor Saeed Mirza has not yet received the final DNA results that would determine the fatality's identity. The sources said further forensic DNA testing would be conducted before a definite answer is given.

An Nahar also said Thursday that the death of Fatah al-Islam's spokesman Abu Salim Taha has not been confirmed. Youssef backed up An Nahar's report, saying Abu Taha's fate remains unknown after his wife, who went to a Tripoli morgue to identify him, said that the corpse was not that of her husband.

Absi's wife identified the corpse as that of her husband Shaker Absi, hospital manager Nasser Adra told reporters on Monday. He did not disclose further details. Absi was killed along with 31 fellow terrorists in a major showdown with the Lebanese Army that ended the Nahr al-Bared battle which broke out on May 20.
Posted by:Fred

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