Bosnia lab to test Katrina bodies

[sabra]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4567442.stm

Bosnia lab to test Katrina bodies

The ICMP was set up to identify Bosnian war victims

A Bosnian laboratory which pioneered new techniques to identify victims of the Balkan wars is to help identify the unknown dead of Hurricane Katrina.

The Sarajevo-based International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) will seek to extract DNA profiles from 350 samples provided by US authorities.

Katrina killed more than 1,200 people when it hit in August, and four months on, many bodies remain unidentified.

The southern state of Louisiana, which requested the help, was hardest hit.

[hlthe2b]

1. Finally... some promise of competence....

[Demeter]

2. Too Bad It Has To Be Outsourced

But given the scandals involving crime labs across the nation, perfectly understandable.

[daleo]

3. A war crimes lab is symbolically appropriate in this case.

Technically, Bush is not at war with the U.S. population but he might as well be.