Forensic feat IDs all but five of Pentagon victimsWASHINGTON (Army News Service, Nov. 28, 2001) - What some experts have called "the most comprehensive forensic investigation in U.S. history" ended Nov. 16 with the identification of 184 of the 189 who died in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
Many of the casualties were badly burned and difficult to identify, an official said. Of the 189 killed, 125 worked at the Pentagon and 64 were passengers on American Airlines Flight 77. Only one of those who died made it to the hospital. The rest were killed on site, and for some, only pieces of tissue could be found.
AFIP's team of forensic pathologists, odontologists, a forensic anthropologist, DNA experts, investigators, and support personnel worked for over two weeks in the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, Del., and for weeks at the DNA lab in Rockville, Md., to identify the victims of the attack.
The investigation mobilized AFIP assets in many ways.
In the hours following the crash Sept. 11, the acting armed forces medical examiner, Air Force Col.AbuBakr Marzouk , worked with FBI and local Virginia law enforcement officials to create a plan for recovering and identifying the victims.At the same time, personnel from the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner positioned and staged equipment to begin operations at Dover. Air Force Maj. Bruce Ensign served as AFIP's team leader at the site.
http://w4.pica.army.mil/voice2001/011207/Forensicid.htmMistakes in detainee abuse case raise concerns about military medical examiner systemSunday, October 31, 2004
Working in a makeshift lab in a bombed-out building, an Army pathologist dipped her gloved hands into a decomposing corpse -- and changed the lives of nine U.S. Marines.
Running her fingers along a fragile, U-shaped bone in the throat of a dead Iraqi prisoner, Col. Kathleen Ingwersen felt a break. She concluded the man had been strangled -- that Nagem Sadoon Hatab was the first victim of homicide in prisons the U.S. military set up in Iraq.
However, since the autopsy that pathologists considered surprisingly conclusive under difficult circumstances, the case has fallen apart.
Tissue samples that Ingwersen's team collected as evidence decomposed when they were left outside in 126-degree heat; Ingwersen said organs turned to "goo." The rib cage and larynx vanished, then resurfaced a year later at military labs on two continents. She conceded she doesn't know what became of the broken hyoid bone that strongly indicated strangulation....."It was one of the poorest places to conduct an autopsy," testified
Air Force Col. Abubakr Marzouk, a pathologist who observed the procedure.Nine Marines faced courts-martial in Hatab's death but most of the cases were dismissed, in part because of the forensic breakdown....Hatab was taken as a suspect in the attack on an Army convoy that killed 11 soldiers and led to the capture of
Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Paulus is accused of ordering a subordinate to drag Hatab by the neck. Hatab died a short time later.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/31/national1318EST0470.DTLChief's death sparks turmoil in NigeriaJuly 7,1998
At least 19 people have been killed in riots in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, following the death of the opposition leader.
Thousands have taken to the streets after hearing about the sudden death of the popular politician, Chief Moshood Abiola, at 1400 GMT.
Chief Abiola has been in custody since 1994, a year after the military regime - led by General Abacha - annulled the democratic election that looked likely to return him as president.
The 60-year-old collapsed in front of a delegation from Washington which was there to help secure his release.
Officially Chief Abiola, like General Abacha, died from a heart attack but his relatives and others have alleged that he was murdered by the military.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/7/newsid_2496000/2496305.stmhttp://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1110/Moshood_Abiola_Nigerian_Chief_of_the_peopleWeek of July 6,1998
Press Conference Statement, 11 July 1998
Investigation of the Death of Chief Moshood AbiolaThis is a preliminary report concerning the autopsy findings of the death of Chief Abiola. At the request of the family of Chief Abiola and the Nigerian Government, an investigation of the cause and manner of death was undertaken by a team of forensic scientists from Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Members of the independent international team:
Sgt. Damon Billingsley,Mortuary Affairs Specialist, U.S. Army Mortuary Facility, Landstuhl, Germany
Abubakr Marzouk, M.D.,, Lt. Col., USAF, Forensic Pathologist, Armed Forces Regional Medical ExaminerJohn E. Pless, M.D.,, Professor of Pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, Representing Physicians for Human Rights
Richard Shepherd, M.B.,Senior Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, St. George's Hospital, London
James G. Young, M.D., , Chief Coroner, Province of Ontario, Canada
http://www.phrusa.org/research/forensics/nigeria/abiola3.html2:30 The Bombing of the USS Cole: The Role of DNA in Sending Seventeen Heros Home Kimberly B. Murga, MFS*, Demris A. Lee, MSFS; Robert M. Fisher, MSFS, Susan W. Jones, Ph.D.,
MFS; Theodore D. Anderson, MFS; Jeanne M. Willard, MFS; William C. Rodriguez, Ph.D, James
J. Canik, B.S.; Brion C. Smith, DDS, and
Abubakr Marzouk, MDhttp://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:QtQMTPDiGaEJ:mafs.net/pdf/mafsscratchpad.rtf+%22AbuBakr+Marzouk%22&hl=en&start=12Posted on Tue, Jun. 04, 2002
Butch Oustalet Ford
Strickler: Malone was alive at city jail
Traffic stop became violent when police suspected he had drugsPASCAGOULA - A former Moss Point reserve police officer on trial this week charged with manslaughter said inmate Marcus Malone was breathing and showed no signs of distress when he left Malone in a city jail cell.Steve Strickler, 30, sat poised on the witness stand Monday as he recalled the events of Sept. 13, 1999, the night Malone was stopped for driving with a broken headlight and later found dead in a cell at the Moss Point jail.
"I would have gotten medical attention for (him) if I thought he needed it," Strickler said.
The jury will begin deliberations today after hearing closing arguments, which are expected to start at 8 a.m. Strickler faces up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted of manslaughter.
During the five-day trial, jurors heard from 30 witnesses, including four forensic pathologists who offered their opinions about how Malone died.
Col. Abubakr Marzouk, a pathologist for the armed forces who testified on Monday for the defense, said the "most probable" cause of Malone's death was excited delirium caused by the use of cocaine and a prolonged struggle with police.
Unlike three other pathologists who investigated Malone's death, Marzouk said he found no evidence that Malone died from the inability to breathe. While the other three pathologists agree Malone died of asphyxiation, they have different opinions about how he died.
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