The Deutsche Bank building, center right, shrouded in black netting with a large American flag, is across from the World Trade Center site in New York in this May 30, 2002 file photo. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Posted on 04/06/2006 8:45:11 PM PDT by Libloather
More Human Remains Found Near Trade Center
1 hour, 32 minutes ago
The Deutsche Bank building, center right, shrouded in black netting with a large American flag, is across from the World Trade Center site in New York in this May 30, 2002 file photo. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
NEW YORK - Construction workers near the World Trade Center discovered 74 more bone fragments on a damaged skyscraper being prepared for demolition, the largest discovery of human remains since cleanup of the building began last fall, officials said.
Investigators reviewing emergency calls from the morning of the terrorist attacks also identified eight more recordings of emergency dispatches and 911 calls from the towers that had previously been overlooked.
Most of the bone fragments discovered over the weekend were found mixed with gravel that had been raked to the sides of the roof of the former Deutsche Bank building, which suffered extensive damage when the twin towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.
Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner, said workers still had more than 100 yards of material to rake through and said she wouldn't be surprised by the discovery of additional remains.
"What they've cleared on the weekend was just a very small area. They still have quite a lot to go," Borakove said Thursday.
The building is contaminated with asbestos, lead and trade center dust and is being cleaned before workers begin deconstructing it floor by floor in June.
Earlier this year, workers in the building found four additional human body parts, and they found 10 additional bone fragments on the roof last fall. In the most recent discovery, workers retrieved 82 samples, 74 of which proved to be human remains that will undergo DNA testing, Borakove said.
Some Sept. 11 family members have urged the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. rebuilding agency to have forensic experts search the building first, and many planned to ask Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday to require a team from the medical examiner's office to be on the site at all times.
"This is an abomination that we are putting this on construction workers," said Sally Regenhard, the mother of a firefighter killed at the trade center.
The medical examiner's office has more than 9,000 unidentified remains from the 2,749 victims of the trade center attack. The remains are being are being stored in the hope that more sophisticated DNA technology will allow for identifications in the future. The remains of more than 40 percent of the people killed at the trade center have not been identified.
The newly discovered 911 recordings were identified on two previously overlooked tapes as investigators searched for the voice of a fire department official who died in the trade center.
The fire department said the recordings would be released after they are processed by the city law department. Roughly 130 calls were released Friday after the voices of the callers had been edited out. The voices of the fire and police operators who heard the calls for help were released after The New York Times and victims' relatives sued.
So sad for the survivors, especially those who never recovered any traces of their loved ones. They will all be thrown into emotional turmoil again.
Probably, remains will be found for many years to come. They are stil finding remains in out-of-the-way places on the Gettysburg Battlefield, 140 years later.
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My uncle is MIA from WWII in Germany. It is important for a family to have a final formal goodbye. We have a burial spot with a stone ready for when he is eventually found. I hope some 9-11 families will be able to have that final goodbye because of the finding of these bone fragments. And I hope that other neighboring roofs will be searched without delay. Obviously the search needs to be extended to these areas.
I don't think families ever give up. My cousin was found in 1991 who had been MIA since WWII.
God bless the poor family members; once again, to have to be put through this. This horror.
I don't think so. This 50-story building is RIGHT NEXT to the World Trade Center site. I cannot fathom how no one checked the ROOF. This is not a field in rural Virginia where someone missed a bone.
Sadly, the only reason these remains are being found is that the building is being demolished because of asbestos contamination.
what kind of freak are you ?
and what about those previously unidentified tapes ? Did the cleaning woman dump them ? Or did somebody decide to not waste time with monitoring emergency-call tapes because it was to far out that people in distress might call 911 ?
How unorganized and arrogant is this ?
It was searched however no one noticed the fragments which could be very tiny.
To you all .I watched on T.V here. There are no words.
A 100 Btits were killed as well. I think I might have got how you feel about 9/11.One of our top units 42 Commando Royal Marines has recently been sent to Afghanistan. I know personaly that they were all very pleased to be going.
It's not about the overly simplistic notion of "the People who Strongly Support the 43rd Presidents Party and the Conservative Ideals in the USA ? ", (probably a good half of the country is very "liberal" and hate "the 43rd President )it's about the survival of the more workable, pragmatic, compassionate and humanistic Western civilization, including your Germany, over the backward, barbarian cruelty and irrationalness of the Islamofascists, anti-semites and Arab and Persian world view and ethos.
That's the kind of "freak" I am. What about you?
Well said and true too. But 'nuke 'em all' - doesn't sound compassionate or humastic or civilized or workable. Neither is it pragmatic.
And I am the kind of freak who likes his facts cold and without salad.
PBS' News Hour should add a photo/description of a 9/11 victim 1:1 for every military casualty they show every night.
A whole lot more bad stuff is gonna have to happen for us to get there, but won't it be nice when we finally do!
"And I am the kind of freak who likes his facts cold and without salad."
No salad? No soup for you either. How about with dessert or a nice bier?
"Nuke em all" is a little fun hyperbole to annoy and pull the chains of people like you.
But when push comes to shove with the insane, irrational, intolerant nuclear Muslims, I vote for me and Western civilization first and to hell with them.
OK i'll be with ya - just so you can't say 'ohhh these damn euroweenies'. ;-)
Actually, I've lived in Europe, right there in Munich, Bavaria (great beer)and Paris, been there many times and like the place and many "Euroweenies" (the wurst is not so bad either) very much.
I just think they're not always very realistic about how the world really works.
I also think the Muslims are nuts and very dangerous. Plus, they're not a heck of a lot of fun. They don't even like good German bier.
After 9/11 I understood the emotion of terrible resolve.
And as a warning to our enemies about what they had unleashed, I posted some intentionally casual murderous remarks for the next couple of months.
Now I have shifted my calling to bolstering the morale of our soldiers at the front, and mostly rein in my worldview here at FR.
The intrafratracidal squabbling on FR bores me when it doesn't sicken me.
That's about all the thoughts I can muster after a night without much sleep. Think I'll take a nap now.
Have a nice day.
Thank you, dear Brit. The support of your countrymen in our efforts for the War on Terror is most appreciated!
Oh, I definitely agree that Deutsche Bank is not out-of-the-way. But in some ways, an urban landscape can yield as many surprises as an old battlefield.
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