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| US tries to separate Sept. 11 hijackers' remains from victims' |
| 2003-02-09 |
| Medical examiners are trying to separate the remains of the Sept. 11 terrorists from those of their victims, and to aid the effort, the FBI turned over DNA profiles believed to belong to the hijackers. Remains that match the hijacker profiles will be removed from the city's Memorial Park, where unidentified and unclaimed remains are kept, Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the medical examiner, said Friday. "I certainly do not want the remains of those barbarians intermingled with the innocent, wonderful people we lost on Sept. 11," said Jennie Farrell, a leader of the victims advocacy group Give Your Voice. Good. At least some people aren't forgetting... The massive effort to identify World Trade Center victims' remains is expected to continue for years. Of the 2,792 people listed as missing in the attack, the remains of 1,464 have been identified. Nearly 20,000 body parts were recovered in all, and most remain unidentified. Some may belong to the 10 hijackers who crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center's twin towers, experts say. Those should be sprayed with disinfectant, wrapped in pigskin, and incinerated. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Sounds like a good idea to me,Steve. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-02-10 06:44:42 |
| #1 I honestly would have thought that the hijackers would have been incinerated by the jet fuel and the effects of crashing into the buildings at 500 mph. Hadn't occurred to me that parts of 'em would have remained. Since we have to deal with them somehow, Fred's idea is a good one. However, it would be better, instead of incinerating them, to return them -- wrapped in pigskin -- to their loved ones in Saudi-controlled Arabia. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-02-09 12:54:22 |