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onesliceshort

Posted: Feb 29 2012, 08:06 AM

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Thanks to Mrodway at Pilotsfor911Truth:

http://rt.com/usa/news/victims-landfill-re...s-mortuary-439/

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A report released by the Pentagon on Tuesday reveals that the remains of some victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks were incinerated and dumped in a suburban Virginia landfill.
This latest news comes as the findings of a Defense Department-led investigation into the alleged mismanagement at the military mortuary at the Dover Air Force base in Delaware are revealed to the press.
Last year, the DoD acknowledged that the remains of at least 274 fallen troops were sent to the King George County landfill outside of Washington, DC. At the time, the military estimated that more than 2,700 fragments of body parts were entered into eternal rest at the garbage dump around 70 miles due-south from the Pentagon. Now, say officials, victims of 9/11 were also disposed of at the site.
The report, released Tuesday, says that the remains of the passengers killed in two separate tragedies on 9/11 were sent to the landfill. Victims of both the plane that was downed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania and those aboard the jet that struck the Pentagon in Northern Virginia are some of those that were sent to Dover, then the landfill. Between the incidents involving both aircraft, a total of 223 people perished on September 11, 2001.
The Defense Department review reveals that �several portions of remains� made it to the Virginia landfill, but does not specifically account for a number. The body parts in question, says the Pentagon, �could not be tested or identified� due to charring and other damages that resulted from the tragedy.
The report adds that mortuary officials first believed that, �after final incineration, nothing remained� of the victims. Reviewing the report, the Washington Post reveals that residual material from 9/11 victims did exist, however, which were handed to a �biomedical waste disposal contractor� hired by the Pentagon that then approved for the remains to go to the landfill.

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Posted: Feb 29 2012, 08:33 AM

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Unidentified Pentagon Remains Laid To Rest In Arlington National

09/12/02

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Rumsfeld spoke next to a flag-draped casket containing cremated remains from the Pentagon rubble that could not be identified. For five of the victims, the internment in Arlington will be the only burial because no remains were confirmed to be theirs.

The five include a 60-year-old retired Army colonel and a 3-year-old girl killed with her parents and sister aboard hijacked American Airlines Flight 77.

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In some cases, as recovery efforts continued, additional remains were identified after a person was buried. Some of their families chose to have those fragments held for the common burial site, Jennifer Lafley, spokeswoman for the Army Military District of Washington said.

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All the cremated remains buried Thursday were determined to have come from victims, because they did not have a genetic trait shared by the terrorists, said Chris Kelly, spokesman for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

Some of the remains buried could not be linked to an individual victim. Others were identified after a victim had been buried, and were included in the shared grave at the family's request.

The hijackers' remains were turned over to the FBI in February. Any other remains, such as ash, that could not be partially identified as victims were disposed of by the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Kelly said, to ensure that no terrorists were committed to hallowed ground.

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Posted: Feb 29 2012, 08:34 AM

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http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/201...11_victims.html

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Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles Burlingame, the pilot of the plane that was driven into the Pentagon by terrorist hijackers, said she was confused by the report. She said she attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery at which unidentified 9/11 remains were buried in an engraved casket.

�They were treated with great respect and great ceremony,� Burlingame said. �The Department of Defense was exceedingly sensitive and treated those unidentified remains with great respect. ... I would want to know more.�

The Abizaid report primarily focused on management reforms to a �dysfunctional, isolated� Dover mortuary chain of command. It cited the 9/11 matter while explaining the history of problems at Dover that came to light last year through complaints from whistle-blowers who revealed the mishandling of war remains.

The practice at Dover of cremating partial remains and sending them to a landfill began shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the report said, �when several portions of remains from the Pentagon attack and the Shanksville, Pa., crash site could not be tested or identified.�

The terrorist-hijacked airliner that slammed into the west side of the Pentagon killed 184 people, and the plane that crashed in a field near Shanksville killed 40.

The Abizaid report said that in line with Dover�s policy, �cremated portions were then placed in sealed containers that were provided to a biomedical waste disposal� company under Air Force contract. �Per the biomedical waste contract at that time, the contractor then transported these containers and incinerated them.� The report said Dover authorities assumed that after incineration �nothing remained.�

But a Dover management �query� found that �there was some residual material following incineration and that the contractor was disposing of it in a landfill.� It added that use of the landfill was not disclosed in the waste disposal contract. �We don�t think it should have happened,� Abizaid told reporters.

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In the case of 9/11 victims, some remains from the Pentagon, where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed, were buried at Arlington National Cemetery on the anniversary of the attacks. Three caskets of unidentified remains from the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville were buried there last September. (OSS - anybody else hear about this??)

In Pennsylvania, Somerset County coroner Wallace Miller said in an interview Tuesday that he was surprised that remains from Flight 93 might be involved in the new Pentagon report. �I wouldn�t know how there would be any possibility how any remains would get to Dover,� Miller said. He said the only remains he knows of that would not be in Pennsylvania are those of four of the hijackers that are being held by the FBI for potential military tribunals.

A lawmaker who has closely followed the Dover scandal, Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., said the Pentagon has yet to fully explain the practice of disposing of partial remains in landfills. �The Pentagon must provide absolute clarity and accountability as to what human remains were dishonored in this manner, and it must take far more aggressive steps to ensure this never happens again,� Holt said.
Holt also revealed that he had written to Panetta on Feb. 6 asking for a fuller explanation of the history of remains disposal by Dover. In the letter, Holt asked, �Regarding the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, can the Air Force confirm that no 9/11 victim�s remains were incinerated, mixed with medical waste and sent to a landfill?�

stevendabudgie	Posted: Mar 4 2012, 10:15 AM
Curious Citizen Group: Member Posts: 25 Member No.: 1,192 Joined: 2-November 10	Pentagon Admits More 9/11 Remains Dumped in Landfill http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe...d&v=-2t9PK-Kato TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=4050 A new report released on Monday by the Pentagon reveals that some of the unidentifiable remains from victims at the Pentagon and Shanksville sites on September 11th were disposed of in a landfill. The details come from the findings of a review committee examining operations of the Air Force Mortuaty division at Dover Air Force Base. In the report, it is noted that before 2008, disposal of unidentified remains was delegated of by subcontractors. The guidelines at the time called for the contractors to incinerate the remains and dump the ashes in landfills. Find out more in this week's edition of GRTV Behind The Headlines. http://911blogger.com/news/2012-03-01/pent...dumped-landfill

stevendabudgie	Posted: Apr 30 2012, 08:29 AM
Curious Citizen Group: Member Posts: 25 Member No.: 1,192 Joined: 2-November 10	WASHINGTON — The Air Force considered burial at sea before classifying 1,321 fragments of unidentifiable 9/11 remains from the Pentagon as medical waste and ordering that they be incinerated, according to documents released yesterday. E-mails from Aug. 5 to Aug. 7, 2002, reveal that an unnamed Air Force colonel suggested scattering the remains at sea and that a civilian official noted that it might be appropriate to have witnesses and a chaplain present. But others rejected that idea. The e-mails are among nearly 2,000 pages that detail operations at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary in Delaware and investigations into the mishandling of war dead and other remains and the disposal of body fragments. The documents were made public hours after senior officials met with the families of some victims of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon. Last month’s disclosure that incinerated remains had been dumped in a landfill triggered outrage. The practice was ended in June 2008. Since then, the Air Force has put all remains in urns and disposed of them at sea from Navy or Coast Guard ships. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/nix_...M#ixzz1tXemdBXW http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/nix_...xypUK6yfAOS3mHM[QUOTE]

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