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Theresa
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 Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:42 am Remains Found Near Ground Zero Are Human |
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By AMY WESTFELDT, AP
NEW YORK (Oct. 29) - Ten bone fragments discovered more than four years after the World Trade Center attacks on the rooftop of a nearby skyscraper are human, officials said Friday.
The pieces of bone, ranging in size from half an inch to two inches, were found on three days last month by construction workers sifting through gravel on top of the former Deutsche Bank building, officials said.
Parts of the trade center's south tower carved a huge gash in the 41-story building's facade when it collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. Deconstruction of the building, which is known to be contaminated with asbestos, lead, and trade center dust, began in September.
The city medical examiner will try to identify the remains by extracting DNA and checking it against a database of World Trade Center victims, said medical examiner's spokeswoman Ellen Borakove.
"We're hoping to be able to create some profiles," she said.
Borakove said test results returned last week indicated the fragments were human. She said it was too soon too tell whether the remains came from one person or more than one.
The city has recovered 19,964 pieces of human remains from the trade center attack and identified 9,100 of them, Borakove said. Of the 2,749 people who died at the trade center, 1,152 victims have no identifiable remains.
The medical examiner's office has said that more sophisticated DNA technology may someday develop to help identify the remains. Until then, they will remain in city custody and will eventually be encased at the trade center memorial.
Mary Fetchet, whose son, Brad, died at the south tower of the trade center, said Friday the discovery reopens old wounds.
"It's just a reminder of the horrific nature of the event," said Fetchet. "When you talk about identification of bone fragments, it just brings you back to what really happened that day."
The former Deutsche Bank building was purchased by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. last year and is scheduled to be completely dismantled in 2007.
LMDC president Stefan Pryor said that after construction workers found the fragments, "our rigorous protocols automatically assume findings of this nature to be human remains and therefore require that they be treated with the utmost care, dignity, and respect."
The city inspected the entire building in the months following the attacks before turning it over to the building's owners, the LMDC said.
10-29-05 02:28 EDT
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. |
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Republican_Man
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| Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:09 am |
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Wow. This is quite a shocking haunting. This could be some sort of sign, perhaps, if you're superstitious, but I don't know. Shocking.
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PrankishSmart
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| Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:13 am |
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It's quite amazing that they were found many years later.
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TrekkieMage
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| Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:34 am |
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It is even more amazing that they can identify them. But it is a bit creepy that these fragments are being found years after the fact.
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Cathexis
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| Sat Oct 29, 2005 2:39 pm |
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Wow...like they said, just another reminder of the horrific event and its nature...
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Tyvek
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| Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:05 pm |
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| TrekkieMage wrote: | | It is even more amazing that they can identify them. But it is a bit creepy that these fragments are being found years after the fact. |
yes it is creepy, but I don't know if it suprises me all so much, I mean one thing that we tend not to want to think of when we remember these attacks, is the force of the buildings when they fell, it ripped people apart. It wouldn't suprise me if they found fragments in other places as well.
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Starbuck
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| Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:43 am |
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This is quite schocking indeed, however, Ty has a point. It wouldn't surprise me to find something of this nature in the future, though this must be horrifying for the family of the victim.
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Lord Borg
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| Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:20 pm Re: Remains Found Near Ground Zero Are Human |
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| Theresa wrote: | | "When you talk about identification of bone fragments, it just brings you back to what really happened that day." |
I dunno why, but that part confusies me. Did she convinced her self somehting eles happend?
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Sadly, that's likely the case. There's a far-left conspiracy theory that Bush was really behind it to go into Iraq. It was really him who did the attacks and all. There's also a theory put forth usually by farther-left people that the Pentagon strike wasn't a plane attack, but was a missile or something.
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Theresa
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | Sadly, that's likely the case. There's a far-left conspiracy theory that Bush was really behind it to go into Iraq. It was really him who did the attacks and all. There's also a theory put forth usually by farther-left people that the Pentagon strike wasn't a plane attack, but was a missile or something. |
Every time I hear that it just makes me sick.
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Lord Borg
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It makes me sick to. I have read some of the conspiracys though. they are on Wikipedia
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CJ Cregg
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| Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:41 pm |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | Sadly, that's likely the case. There's a far-left conspiracy theory that Bush was really behind it to go into Iraq. It was really him who did the attacks and all. There's also a theory put forth usually by farther-left people that the Pentagon strike wasn't a plane attack, but was a missile or something. |
Not "far-left" but crazy people.
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