"On anniversary of 9/11, fear is present but not all-consuming" by Juliette Kayyem | Globe Columnist, September 10, 2012
Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama administration, is a Globe columnist.
And now she is running for governor?
.... A different way of thinking about 9/11 as we head into yet another anniversary tomorrow.
I would suggest starting here, but the rest is up to you.
Terrorism has settled into a place on the list of our modern anxieties — next to gum disease and hurricanes — but it no longer looms as the overwhelming, existential worry that it seemed to be in the first few years after the attacks.
The trajectory of counter-terrorism efforts over the last eleven years — the breathless warmongering of the Bush years, followed by something more deliberate and targeted as the White House changed hands — hasn’t been the only shift. For much of the American public, the terrorist attacks and the security apparatus they launched may be ever-present, but these days terrorism fears are not all-consuming.
See: 9/11 Memory Hole: Line at Logan
It’s fitting, then, that the 11th anniversary is arriving tomorrow with little of the fanfare of past commemorations.
Related:
"Bells tolled to mark the planes’ hitting the towers and the moments when the skyscrapers fell. ‘‘Tribute in Light’’ searchlights, turned on at sunset, illuminated the skies where the twin towers once stood."
Bostonians get a two-fer, and that is par for the course.
There are no major public events.
Related:
"Politicians will be excluded from speaking at this year’s Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony at ground zero, following a year in which families have expressed concern that political struggles are hindering progress on a 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center site."
More on the museum below.
The anniversary has become personal, acceptable to remember in ways that are appropriate to the level of grief we still feel or the commitment of friends and family to the wars still being fought. As a nation, we will meet again in the initial post-9/11 spirit for only two reasons: the 20th anniversary or another terrorist attack.
It is true that one big reason we have been able to move on is because there has been no major attack on US soil since then. Terrorists are now so scattered (or so dead) that operations have been left to easy converts and careless bombers. The threat is diminished, so it’s no surprise that the fear has, too.
How things have changed after a year, huh?
But that’s not the only explanation for the low-key commemoration. There has also been an effort by the public to reclaim 9/11 as their own, to give it continuing meaning while toning down the past commemorations that seemed so closely linked to the way terrorism fears were exploited politically after the attacks.
It's called 9/11 Truth.
After almost eight years of the Bush administration, Americans grew tired of the political manipulation of 9/11.
And now we are ANGERED by the five years of Obomber, especially with this latest pile of war-mongering bull s***.
Republicans seem to have realized this: At its convention, the GOP essentially ignored 9/11 and the wars that were fought in its name. The Iraq war, sold to the American public as the natural extension of 9/11, was not even a footnote. And for the Democrats, the Obama administration’s foreign policy has been a lot more about tidying up loose ends from the past — in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and with Al Qaeda — than fanning memories of 9/11. The death of Osama bin Laden was a rallying cry at their convention, but his ongoing relevance is questionable.
Related: Bin Laden Stories Show AmeriKan Media Not to be Believed
It's more than that, but since they are lying about that.... sigh.
And as the politicization of the attacks fades, fear has been replaced by attitudes like my cousin Karen’s. Her question reflected the sincere desire of citizens to get realistic information about terrorism risks so that they can weigh the threat and make the best decisions. It’s not paranoia, just an honest attempt to better understand, and take responsibility for, bewildering information that is so often overwhelming and so rarely presented in a practical way.
She is describing exactly my relationship with the AmeriKan media!
Whether this attitude of resiliency holds if there is another major attack will have much to do with what our political leadership tells us. During World War II —
--more--"
Related: Families of victims relieved at a subdued 9/11
It wasn't quiet everywhere:
"‘Dirty bomb’ threat at hospitals remains, GAO report says" by Anne Gearan | Washington Post, September 11, 2012
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have failed to implement safeguards to secure radiological materials that could be used in a ‘‘dirty bomb’’ at nearly four out of every five high-risk hospitals and medical facilities nationwide, according to a draft report by congressional investigators.
Eleven years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks focused attention on the possibility that terrorists could use crude nuclear devices, the analysis by the Government Accountability Office described numerous instances of failure to secure highly radioactive material at hospitals.
See: Lindsay Graham Says Nuclear False Flag on the Way
‘‘Medical facilities currently are not required to take any specific actions to make sure these materials are safe, and many have very sloppy practices, which is remarkable nearly 11 years after 9/11,’’ according to a copy of the draft scheduled for release Tuesday and provided to The Washington Post....
--more--"
Related(?): North Dakota Nukes on the Loose?
Also see:
Colo. professor loses court bid to reclaim job
Observances set for Mass. 9/11 victims, war dead
9/11 families welcome more intimate rites
Subdued grieving 11 years after 9/11
NBC’s ‘Today’ skips 9/11 moment for Kardashian
It's all show biz!
"Five charged in 9/11 attacks return to Guantanamo court; Unlike last time, no disruptions" by Ben Fox | Associated Press, October 16, 2012
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Defense lawyers spent hours arguing that their clients should not have
to attend the hearing, saying such proceedings dredge up memories of
their harsh treatment in CIA detention. The military judge ruled that
the men would not have to attend the hearings at least for the rest of
the week.
‘‘Our clients may believe that . . . ‘I don’t want to be subjected to
this procedure that transports me here, brings up memories, brings up
emotions of things that happened to me,’ ’’ said Jim Harrington, who
represents Ramzi Binalshibh, accused of helping to provide support to
the hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the
Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001....
So says my lying, distorting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting jewsmedia.
So says my lying, distorting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting jewsmedia.
Harrington told the court that the defendants may want to boycott future
court sessions because they do not recognize the US government’s
authority, or because their transportation from their high-security
cells may remind them of the harsh treatment they endured when confined
in the CIA’s overseas network of secret prisons before they came to
Guantanamo in September 2006.
--more--"
Related: 3 Sept. 11 suspects skip their hearing
So am I.
Also see: 9/11 defendant in camouflage in Guantanamo court
I'm no longer interested in patsy plotters, but did find this interesting:
Guantanamo inmate’s case delayed
It's regarding the USS Cole, and "complicating matters was Tropical Storm Sandy, which was forecast to grow into a hurricane as it heads north in the Caribbean Sea and possibly force the evacuation of the US naval base in Cuba."
"Defendant in Cole plot objects to use of chains; Appeals to judge on conditions at Guantanamo" by Charlie Savage | New York Times, October 25, 2012
FORT MEADE, Md. — A Saudi man accused of helping to plot Al Qaeda’s attack on the USS Cole in 2000 told a military commission judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday that he would boycott his case if military guards force him to wear chains as a condition of coming to court.
Oh, it was Al-CIA-Duh, was it?
The defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, stood at a desk to deliver a monologue several minutes long about what he portrayed as bad treatment and unnecessarily aggressive security measures by prison guards. An uncomfortable car used to transport him to the court made him vomit, he said, and belly chains hurt his bad back.
‘‘I intend to attend all future session,’’ Nashiri said. ‘‘But if the guards do not treat me better, I have the right not to come. And let the world know that the judge sentenced me to death because I didn’t show up to court due to chains.’’
Nashiri had decided to stay in his cell Tuesday, during the first day of a pretrial motions hearing that was held at Guantanamo and shown to reporters here in suburban Maryland. He was forced to attend Wednesday by the judge, Colonel James Pohl of the Army, for the purpose of being told in person that he had the right not to attend sessions but that doing so could damage his defense.
Prosecutors have sought to compel Nashiri’s attendance, lest his absence from the trial raise a question about its fairness that could become the basis for an appeal after any conviction. Nashiri’s lawyers have argued that their client was tortured by the CIA in ways that make the security steps associated with involuntarily attendance — like forced cell extractions — damaging to their client’s mental and physical health, and have asked for a medical evaluation.
Meaning he said and signed whatever they wanted him to say or sign.
The Cole bombing, off the shore of Aden, Yemen, in 2000, killed 17 American soldiers. Nashiri is among several accused planners of the attack. He was captured in 2002 and held in secret overseas CIA ‘‘black site’’ prisons until 2006, when he was transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay.
Hardly raises a ruffle anymore, and you rarely see stories about it.
Defense lawyers also sought intelligence about Abu Ali al-Harithi, a Yemeni man who was killed by a drone strike in 2002 and who has also been described as a planner of the Cole attack. Prosecutors said they were turning over all Cole data.
PFFFT!
--more--"
Time to board the flight:
Also see:
Fake boarding passes can fool airport security checks
TSA airport seizures create new market
Looks like $tealing to me.
Related:
"NY judge rejects 9/11 suit against United Airlines" by Larry Neumeister | Associated Press, November 22, 2012
NEW YORK — United Airlines cannot be held responsible for the hijacking of an American Airlines flight and the collapse of a third World Trade Center building after the twin towers fell in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
That is often forgotten amongst the horror of the two giant skyscrapers going down when all the world was watching; however, I remember it. I was walking by the television and didn't think anything of it except what a bloody mess down there today, and continued with my homework. It wasn't until much later that I realized what I saw.
The airline was not responsible for the collapse of 7 World Trade Center because it had no connection to American Airlines Flight 11 or its hijackers, except that it had shared responsibility for a security checkpoint in Portland, Maine, that screened two of the terrorists, US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said.
Related: 9/11 Memory Hole: Final Flight
The corporation that owns 7 World Trade Center sued various aviation defendants, saying their negligence led to the building’s destruction.
WTC 7 is a good place to start unraveling the government lies.
Other than shared authority for the lone security screening checkpoint, ‘‘United had no connection to Flight 11 or its hijackers,’’ the judge said.
Bud Perrone, a spokesman for Silverstein Properties, said the plaintiffs were disappointed but looked forward to their prospects in a different lawsuit against United over security lapses involving United Flight 175.
--more--"
Do you know what offices were in WTC 7?
A controlled demolition and cover up?
More remains:
"Internal e-mails offer details on bin Laden burial" by Richard Lardner | Associated Press, November 22, 2012
WASHINGTON — No sailors watched Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson....
The first public disclosure of government information about the Al Qaeda leader’s death.....
Although the Obama administration has pledged to be the most transparent in American history, it is keeping a tight hold on materials related to the bin Laden raid.
In a response to separate requests for information about the mission, the Defense Department said in March that it could not locate any photos or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden’s body. It also said it could not find any images of his body on the Vinson.
That's because it wasn't him; bin Laden died in December 2001.
The Pentagon also said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report, or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden....
Like Weissman?
--more--"
Hollywood rewriting history again? What else is not new?
It's all for the greater good, right?
"Judges skeptical on bin Laden case" by Frederic J. Frommer | Associated Press, January 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — Federal appeals court judges seemed skeptical Thursday about forcing the government to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which US commandos killed the terrorist leader.
They said they couldn't find any, even though we were told the Cabinet watched it in real time.
Judicial Watch, a conservative group, is seeking the images through the Freedom of Information Act. The CIA found 52 records, but withheld them, citing exemptions for classified materials.
We can't see them?
Judicial Watch lawyer Michael Bekesha told the appeals court panel in arguments Thursday that the government didn’t provide a specific enough basis for denying the request. But Judge Merrick Garland said the government cited specific concerns that the images could be used by the Al Qaeda terrorist network for propaganda and to incite anti-American sentiment.
That's what a newspaper is for.
‘‘Why aren’t those specific?’’ asked Garland....
--more--"
Who wants to waste time with a designated government patsy?
I may be a "conspiracy" truthist, but that does not mean I do not think people died that day:
"Possible remains at Ground Zero
It's been TEN YEARS!
Unreal!
I'm thinking PLANTED MATERIAL to keep this thing alive in the minds of Americans.
?????? It reinforces the plane narrative.
Where did they dump the remains?
Also see:
Christening set for Navy ship named for 9/11 site
Ex-naval officer gets prison time for 9-11 fraud
Another generation's 9/11:
Pearl Harbor dead remembered on 71st anniversary
Survivors in Charlestown recall attack on Pearl Harbor
Related(?):
"The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor."
One year later, they got their wish!
Related: 3 Sept. 11 suspects skip their hearing
So am I.
Also see: 9/11 defendant in camouflage in Guantanamo court
I'm no longer interested in patsy plotters, but did find this interesting:
Guantanamo inmate’s case delayed
It's regarding the USS Cole, and "complicating matters was Tropical Storm Sandy, which was forecast to grow into a hurricane as it heads north in the Caribbean Sea and possibly force the evacuation of the US naval base in Cuba."
"Defendant in Cole plot objects to use of chains; Appeals to judge on conditions at Guantanamo" by Charlie Savage | New York Times, October 25, 2012
FORT MEADE, Md. — A Saudi man accused of helping to plot Al Qaeda’s attack on the USS Cole in 2000 told a military commission judge at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday that he would boycott his case if military guards force him to wear chains as a condition of coming to court.
Oh, it was Al-CIA-Duh, was it?
The defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, stood at a desk to deliver a monologue several minutes long about what he portrayed as bad treatment and unnecessarily aggressive security measures by prison guards. An uncomfortable car used to transport him to the court made him vomit, he said, and belly chains hurt his bad back.
‘‘I intend to attend all future session,’’ Nashiri said. ‘‘But if the guards do not treat me better, I have the right not to come. And let the world know that the judge sentenced me to death because I didn’t show up to court due to chains.’’
Nashiri had decided to stay in his cell Tuesday, during the first day of a pretrial motions hearing that was held at Guantanamo and shown to reporters here in suburban Maryland. He was forced to attend Wednesday by the judge, Colonel James Pohl of the Army, for the purpose of being told in person that he had the right not to attend sessions but that doing so could damage his defense.
Prosecutors have sought to compel Nashiri’s attendance, lest his absence from the trial raise a question about its fairness that could become the basis for an appeal after any conviction. Nashiri’s lawyers have argued that their client was tortured by the CIA in ways that make the security steps associated with involuntarily attendance — like forced cell extractions — damaging to their client’s mental and physical health, and have asked for a medical evaluation.
Meaning he said and signed whatever they wanted him to say or sign.
The Cole bombing, off the shore of Aden, Yemen, in 2000, killed 17 American soldiers. Nashiri is among several accused planners of the attack. He was captured in 2002 and held in secret overseas CIA ‘‘black site’’ prisons until 2006, when he was transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay.
Hardly raises a ruffle anymore, and you rarely see stories about it.
Defense lawyers also sought intelligence about Abu Ali al-Harithi, a Yemeni man who was killed by a drone strike in 2002 and who has also been described as a planner of the Cole attack. Prosecutors said they were turning over all Cole data.
PFFFT!
--more--"
Time to board the flight:
Also see:
Fake boarding passes can fool airport security checks
TSA airport seizures create new market
Looks like $tealing to me.
Related:
"NY judge rejects 9/11 suit against United Airlines" by Larry Neumeister | Associated Press, November 22, 2012
NEW YORK — United Airlines cannot be held responsible for the hijacking of an American Airlines flight and the collapse of a third World Trade Center building after the twin towers fell in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
That is often forgotten amongst the horror of the two giant skyscrapers going down when all the world was watching; however, I remember it. I was walking by the television and didn't think anything of it except what a bloody mess down there today, and continued with my homework. It wasn't until much later that I realized what I saw.
The airline was not responsible for the collapse of 7 World Trade Center because it had no connection to American Airlines Flight 11 or its hijackers, except that it had shared responsibility for a security checkpoint in Portland, Maine, that screened two of the terrorists, US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said.
Related: 9/11 Memory Hole: Final Flight
The corporation that owns 7 World Trade Center sued various aviation defendants, saying their negligence led to the building’s destruction.
WTC 7 is a good place to start unraveling the government lies.
Other than shared authority for the lone security screening checkpoint, ‘‘United had no connection to Flight 11 or its hijackers,’’ the judge said.
Bud Perrone, a spokesman for Silverstein Properties, said the plaintiffs were disappointed but looked forward to their prospects in a different lawsuit against United over security lapses involving United Flight 175.
--more--"
Do you know what offices were in WTC 7?
A controlled demolition and cover up?
More remains:
"Internal e-mails offer details on bin Laden burial" by Richard Lardner | Associated Press, November 22, 2012
WASHINGTON — No sailors watched Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson....
The first public disclosure of government information about the Al Qaeda leader’s death.....
Although the Obama administration has pledged to be the most transparent in American history, it is keeping a tight hold on materials related to the bin Laden raid.
In a response to separate requests for information about the mission, the Defense Department said in March that it could not locate any photos or video taken during the raid or showing bin Laden’s body. It also said it could not find any images of his body on the Vinson.
That's because it wasn't him; bin Laden died in December 2001.
The Pentagon also said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report, or results of DNA identification tests for bin Laden....
Like Weissman?
--more--"
Hollywood rewriting history again? What else is not new?
It's all for the greater good, right?
"Judges skeptical on bin Laden case" by Frederic J. Frommer | Associated Press, January 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — Federal appeals court judges seemed skeptical Thursday about forcing the government to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which US commandos killed the terrorist leader.
They said they couldn't find any, even though we were told the Cabinet watched it in real time.
Judicial Watch, a conservative group, is seeking the images through the Freedom of Information Act. The CIA found 52 records, but withheld them, citing exemptions for classified materials.
We can't see them?
Judicial Watch lawyer Michael Bekesha told the appeals court panel in arguments Thursday that the government didn’t provide a specific enough basis for denying the request. But Judge Merrick Garland said the government cited specific concerns that the images could be used by the Al Qaeda terrorist network for propaganda and to incite anti-American sentiment.
That's what a newspaper is for.
‘‘Why aren’t those specific?’’ asked Garland....
--more--"
Who wants to waste time with a designated government patsy?
I may be a "conspiracy" truthist, but that does not mean I do not think people died that day:
"Possible remains at Ground Zero
NEW YORK — The New York City medical examiner’s office said the possible remains of one person have been found during the sifting of newly uncovered debris from the site of the September 2001 terrorist attacks. More than two dozen potential human remains have been found since the effort started at the beginning of April. The most recent was found Saturday (AP)."
WTF?
See: Slow Saturday Special: WTC Was Attacked by UFOs
Since the CIA confirmed it I think we can rule it out.
WTF?
See: Slow Saturday Special: WTC Was Attacked by UFOs
Since the CIA confirmed it I think we can rule it out.
"WTC remains still being identified" by Jo Craven McGinty | New York Times, November 13, 2011
NEW YORK - At the office of New York City’s medical examiner, scientists have been laboring to link nearly 22,000 human remains to the 2,747 people killed at the pulverized World Trade Center.
The byproduct of the sobering math has been a series of unpredictable and heartrending telephone calls over the last 10 years to notify family members that yet another fragment of their child, spouse, or parent has been identified, followed by the wrenching question of what to do with remains that, in some cases, are no more than particles of bone.
WTF? The crime scene was never properly investigated in addition to being destroyed by the removal of steel then sent to China and melted down?
WTF? The crime scene was never properly investigated in addition to being destroyed by the removal of steel then sent to China and melted down?
“There are certain things people don’t talk about,’’ said Sally Regenhard, whose son Christian died in the attack. “People won’t talk about the jumpers. They don’t talk about the money. And they don’t talk about whether they are still getting pieces.’’
She is so right!
See: SUPPRESSED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CIA's HIGHEST RANKS
Twin Towers jumpers that Americans will not talk about
Some even question if that is what we saw, and who knows what happened down there anymore? Only those who perpetrated it.
She is so right!
See: SUPPRESSED DETAILS OF CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING LEAD DIRECTLY INTO THE CIA's HIGHEST RANKS
Twin Towers jumpers that Americans will not talk about
Some even question if that is what we saw, and who knows what happened down there anymore? Only those who perpetrated it.
Yet remains are identified almost every day, and families will continue to get calls for as long as the medical examiner’s office keeps making identifications....
It's been TEN YEARS!
--more--"
"More 9/11 debris brings hope for human remains; Newly uncovered area to be sifted" by Meghan Barr | Associated Press, April 03, 2013
NEW YORK — Jim Riches pulled his son’s mangled body out of the rubble at the World Trade Center, but the phone calls still filtered in years afterward. The city kept finding more pieces of his son.
“They’ll call you and they’ll tell you, ‘We found a shinbone,’ ” Riches said. “Or: ‘We found an arm bone.’ We held them all together and then we put them in the cemetery.”
Those are the phone calls both dreaded and hoped for among the families of Sept. 11 victims. And as investigators began sifting through newly uncovered debris from the World Trade Center this week for the first time in three years, those anxieties were renewed more than a decade after the attacks.
Unreal!
I'm thinking PLANTED MATERIAL to keep this thing alive in the minds of Americans.
But there was also hope that more victims might yet be identified after tens of millions has been spent on the painstaking identification process. Two potential human remains were recovered on Monday, according to the medical examiner.
“We would like to see the other 40 percent of the families who have never recovered anything to at least someday have a piece of their loved one,” Riches said. “That they can go to a cemetery and pray.”
About 60 truckloads of debris that could contain tiny fragments of bone or tissue were unearthed by construction crews that have been working on the new World Trade Center in recent years. That material is now being transported to a park built on top of the former Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where investigators will attempt to find remains during the next 10 weeks, the city said.
The city’s last sifting effort ended in 2010. This time, crews were able to dig up parts of the trade center site that were previously inaccessible, the city said.
Some 2,750 people died at the World Trade Center in the 2001 terrorist attacks, but remains from only 1,634 people have been identified.
“We have been monitoring the World Trade Center site over time and monitoring the construction,” said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. “And if they see any material that could possibly contain human remains, we collect that material.”
About 9,000 human remains recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center remain unidentified because they are too degraded to match victims by DNA identification. The remains are monitored by the medical examiner’s office and will eventually be transferred to a subterranean chamber at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Some victims’ families expressed impatience that the city has only just uncovered more debris.
“Quite frankly, they should’ve excavated this and searched it 12 years ago,” said Diane Horning, whose son, Matthew, died in the attacks. “Instead, they built service roads and construction roads and were more worried about the building and the tourism than they were about the human remains.”
And getting Wall Street up and running again.
And getting Wall Street up and running again.
The city’s efforts to identify Sept. 11 victims have long been fraught with controversy.
In April 2005, the city’s chief medical examiner, Charles Hirsch, told families his office would suspend identification efforts because it had exhausted the limits of DNA technology.
But just a year later, the discovery of human remains on a bank tower roof and then in a manhole near ground zero outraged families who said the search for their loved ones had been rushed initially.
As it embarks on combing through debris yet again, the medical examiner’s office says it will keep monitoring the site as long as new areas are being dug or exposed.
Charles G. Wolf was pleased to hear about the renewed search, though he believes that his wife, Katherine, was vaporized. Investigators have never found her remains.
“You heal. You carry on,” he said. “It’s not closure.”
--more--"
"No human remains where piece of 9/11 plane was found" by Marc Santora | New York Times, May 02, 2013
NEW YORK — New York City officials said Wednesday that no human remains were found in the soil behind a building in Lower Manhattan where wreckage was discovered last week from one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center more than a decade ago.
?????? It reinforces the plane narrative.
The surprising discovery so long after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks led to an exhaustive search for human remains. That search turned up nothing, according to the New York City medical examiner’s office.
It's psyop mind manipulation by the mouthpiece media.
It's psyop mind manipulation by the mouthpiece media.
“We did a thorough examination of the area to make sure we didn’t have any remains that were missed,’’ said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office.
Isn't that what they said ten years ago?
Isn't that what they said ten years ago?
The piece of wreckage was discovered last week by land surveyors in a narrow slice of land between 50 Murray St., a residential building, and 51 Park Place, which is empty.
Park Place is about three blocks north of the World Trade Center site.
Police carted off the piece of wreckage Wednesday morning, treating it with the care one might expect at an archaeological dig....
Oh, now I'm convinced the government is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Oh, now I'm convinced the government is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
--more--"
Where did they dump the remains?
"9/11 victims’ ashes dumped in landfill" New York Times, February 29, 2012
How DISRESPECTFUL!
How DISRESPECTFUL!
WASHINGTON - The mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware disposed of some body parts of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by burning them and dumping the ashes in a landfill, an independent panel said in a report released yesterday.
Looks like the DESTRUCTION of EVIDENCE to me!
Looks like the DESTRUCTION of EVIDENCE to me!
The method of disposal of the remains, which has not been previously disclosed, was limited to what the report said were “several portions of remains’’ that could not be identified from the Pentagon attack and the crash site in Shanksville, Pa. The report said the remains were cremated and placed in containers provided to a biomedical waste disposal contractor, which incinerated them and put them in the landfill.
I'm sorry, dear readers, but THIS REALLY CALLS INTO QUESTION whether passenger planes were used at all!
I'm sorry, dear readers, but THIS REALLY CALLS INTO QUESTION whether passenger planes were used at all!
“We don’t think it should have happened,’’ John Abizaid, the retired general who led the panel, told reporters at the Pentagon.
The practice was also used for some unidentified remains of the nation’s war dead, a fact first disclosed late last year. The practice has since been stopped, and the ashes are now put in urns and buried at sea.
The disclosure came as the independent panel concluded that the mortuary, the entry point for the nation’s war dead, should have more oversight, training of employees, and inspections.
The panel did not address a central issue in the scandal at the mortuary: whether the Air Force should have further disciplined three mortuary officials who had displayed what the Air Force termed “gross mismanagement’’ for losing body parts of two service members and then doing nothing to correct sloppy practices. The decision about what to do about the officials has been left to Michael Donley, the secretary of the Air Force.
Maybe you should take a trip through Arlington, readers.
Maybe you should take a trip through Arlington, readers.
--more--"
Also see:
Christening set for Navy ship named for 9/11 site
Ex-naval officer gets prison time for 9-11 fraud
Time to turn the page:
"A skyscraper has again become an inescapable presence at the southern end of Manhattan."
"A skyscraper has again become an inescapable presence at the southern end of Manhattan."
"9/11 museum sets admission charge
NEW YORK — Faced with nearly $60 million in annual operating costs, the foundation building the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center has decided to charge an admission fee of $20 to $25 when the site opens next year. Entry to the memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools will still be free, but the decision to charge for the underground museum has been greeted with dismay by some relatives of trade center victims (AP)."
Somebody has to make a buck off this thing.
Somebody has to make a buck off this thing.
"Far below the earth where the twin towers once stood, a cavernous museum on hallowed ground is finally nearing completion. Amid the construction machinery and the dust, powerful artifacts of death and destruction have assumed their final resting places inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum."
Another generation's 9/11:
Pearl Harbor dead remembered on 71st anniversary
Survivors in Charlestown recall attack on Pearl Harbor
Related(?):
"The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor."
One year later, they got their wish!
