Rat Acc: Let us just recall the sequence of events about the human remains. The Arido team found some human bones (they were indeed human: I have the photographs and can vouch for that) about 8 km from the crash site. After that my contacts in Arido claim that the bones were left in situ and never recovered. In my many attempts to have access to these bones, via the British Embassy in Cairo, the MoD in England or via Arido resulted in very little. I had offered my services to identify the bones with DNA techniques, and the family of Denis Copping had agreed to this. However, the Arido link dried up, on the grounds that this affair had already had too much public airing, and all my attempts to find out locally (in Cairo via my professional contacts there) were fruitless. Then there was a report from the Cairo Defence Attaché that a second set of bones had been discovered and tested in Cairo, with the result that they were found to be unsuitable (although no-one could tell me who had come to this conclusion). No-one has been able to say where this second set came from, if it ever existed. Again, no information was forthcoming from either Arido or Cairo (embassy or local pathologists). My only aim is to try to recover some human material to be able to say if it belongs to Denis Copping or not. However, this seems to not be attractive to certain of the stakeholders in this affair. It is basically a simple problem, but seems to have acquired a number of political and personal overlays that I cannot understand.
Now the Egyptian political situation would seem to preclude any in situ investigation.
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