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Ambulance transferring IDF soldiers' body parts from Lebanon into Israel (Yaron Kaminsky)
Last update - 10:08 03/06/2008
Doctors identify five IDF soldiers among remains handed over by Hezbollah
By Yuval Azoulay and Roni Singer-Heruti, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Hezbollah, prisoner exchange 

Specialists at the Abu Kabir Forensic Laboratory have been working on three shifts around the clock to identify the remains Hezbollah transferred to Israel on Sunday.

Officials said Monday that the remains that have been identified belong to five of nine Israeli soldiers who were killed during the Second Lebanon War, and whose bodies were not intact at burial.

In the coffin transferred to Israel on Sunday, Hezbollah included the military dog tag of an airman killed during the war, which was delivered to his family Monday by the IDF. Warrant Officer Ron Mashiach of Holon was killed on August 12, 2006, along with four other crew members, when their helicopter was downed by Hezbollah during operations in southern Lebanon.
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The coffin, which contained mostly tissue and small fragments of bone, are being identified using genetic profiling, which compares the findings with samples taken from relatives of the dead soldiers.

According to officials, most of the bone fragments have still not been identified, and the painstaking process may take as long as a month to complete.

Experts said that even though the condition of some of the tissue and bones is not good, DNA technology will prevail, as it has in other difficult tasks such as identifying remnants from the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001.

The same sources said that the technology is available at the Abu Kabir Forensic Laboratory to carry out the necessary tests, and noted that there is no particular reason to send any of the parts abroad for testing, as had been done in the past.


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      1.   SURPRISED??Nassim Nasser was freed in exchange for the body parts 03:47  |  PETER SM 02/06/08
      2.   The big "surprise" 03:55  |  Tosefta 02/06/08
      3.   ANY JEW/ZIONIST WHO WANTS PEACE READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 03:59  |  MOE 02/06/08
      4.   hezbollah is in control 04:14  |  bashar 02/06/08
      5.   The big "surprise" 04:34  |  Tosefta 02/06/08
      6.   Oh how nice of them 04:48  |  Mikey 02/06/08
      7.   Israel should demand political concessions 04:55  |  MARK KLEIN, M.D. 02/06/08
      8.   Primitive People and Israel plays along - ???? 07:03  |  Eugenio 02/06/08
      9.   Destroy Hezbollah... 08:07  |  AJ 02/06/08
      10.   A White Surprise 08:09  |  isratinian 02/06/08
      11.   It`s disgusting that Hizbollah is using the remains of dead.... 08:26  |  R 02/06/08
      12.   Shame on all 08:35  |  gus 02/06/08
      13.   #7 Political concessions 09:34  |  outsider 02/06/08
      14.   Obviously, what took place yesterday was not an exchange. The 09:40  |  Albert 02/06/08
      15.   gus 09:45  |  m 02/06/08
      16.   body merchandizing by Nasrallah 10:06  |  Gregor 02/06/08
      17.   body parts "for free" in the name of islam 10:14  |  ziggurat 02/06/08
      18.   Israel has traded for body parts before this 10:32  |  Natallie Durson 02/06/08
      19.   Israel should not deal with these thugs, traders in human remains 11:13  |  Amihai 02/06/08
      20.   Nasser & his brothers must be laughing their heads off 11:13  |  PETER SM 02/06/08
      21.   #18 Nuttalie 11:19  |  Gregor 02/06/08
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      36.   Indrajaya #32 14:05  |  DC 02/06/08
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      39.   INDRAJAYA.Why should Israel trade blindly with POW murderers 14:41  |  PETER SM 02/06/08
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      41.   Freethinker, not free nor a thinker 14:54  |  ClearCut 02/06/08
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      43.   Rachel Stevens - No, Hizbollah went to war to 15:30  |  Free Gilad Shalit 02/06/08
      44.   Thanks for the deep and pertinent response to my post, ClearCut 15:30  |  Freethinker 02/06/08
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      46.   #43 Free Gilad Shalit 15:53  |  Rachel Stevens 02/06/08
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