TERRORISM - WORLD TRADE CENTER

HULL OF THE U.S.S. NEW YORK
MADE FROM STEEL OF THE NEW YORK TRADE TOWERS

U.S.S. NEW YORK - ORIGINAL ARTIST'S CONCEPTION

Here SHE is, the USS New York,
made from the World Trade Center !

USS New York

This ship was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center .

It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft.

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite , LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, 'those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,' recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. 'It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.'

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the 'hair on my neck stood up.' 'It had a big meaning to it for all of us,' he said. 'They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back.'

The ship's motto? 'Never Forget'

Now everyone can see what we are made of in this country!

Relatives of the Sept. 11 victims reacted to the development and demanded a new investigation and research into the area that the remains were found.

Approximately 1,100 victims’ bodies were never found after the attacks on the Twin Towers.

Charles Wolfe, whose wife worked on the 97th floor of the north tower, said he was shocked when he heard about remains being found and added, “What bothers me is that we have to come up here and ask about it.”

Patrick Brennan, who works New York City mayor's community assistance unit, said no official identifications have been made so far and added that New York police and health officers were conducting the investigation.

Bones could be from 9/11

October 23, 2006 12:00am Article from: The Associated Press MORE bones believed to belong to September 11 World Trade Centre attack victims were found yesterday.

The authorities in New York continued searching underground areas that were apparently overlooked during the excavation years ago.

Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler, who is overseeing the recovery effort, said yesterday that search officials had identified additional manholes and utility cavities that need to be examined.

The team of searchers, which includes police and fire officials and forensic anthropologists from the medical examiner's office, expects to burrow into at least 12 subterranean areas in coming days. About five have been excavated, yielding more than 100 pieces of human remains.

The medical examiner's office said 18 were found yesterday and the total cache of discoveries ranges from tiny fragments to recognisable bones from skulls, torsos, feet and hands. Some are as large as whole arm and leg bones.

"They will go through every grain, every piece of material carefully, and sift through it," Mr Skyler said.

The underground pockets are located along the western edge of the 6.4-hectare lower Manhattan site, underneath a north-south service road that was built in March of 2002 as the excavation was continuing.

Building the road freed up a larger throughway that had been closed since the September 11 attack six months earlier.

However, when it was built, some below-ground cavities that had been used for utility and infrastructure purposes were paved over without being searched for remains. Days ago, crews doing routine work at the site opened one of those manholes and discovered human bones inside, setting off an expedition for other remains.

Families of the victims, 40 per cent of whom still have no identifiable remains, have been outraged about the horrific discovery of the underground tombs. They are calling for federal intervention and have demanded answers about why the search was incomplete.

Mr Skyler said the city is focused on finding remains before it will turn to a review of any missteps.

"It's a question that should be answered, but for now our focus is on dealing with the situation and finding whatever remains are recoverable," he said.

Mr Skyler said widespread stoppage of rebuilding efforts would not be necessary, but if any part of the rebuilding needs to pause to accommodate the search, officials will take that step by step.

Some September 11 families, however, want all rebuilding to halt until the recovery is finished.

"Their actions say remains are not a priority, they're secondary to the rebuilding," said Charles Wolf, who lost his wife and has never received any of her identified remains. "This is bringing up all the gnawing, gut-wrenching stuff inside us again."

The new cache of remains is not the first to turn up unexpectedly since the clean-up officially concluded in 2002. Hundreds of bone fragments recently were found on the roof of a nearby skyscraper that was badly damaged in the 2001 attack and had been condemned.

Victims' relatives, who had been pushing for more careful inspection of surrounding buildings, say the recent discoveries support their argument.

Mr Skyler said that officials are reviewing the searches that were conducted at those buildings and that additional inspections may be necessary.

NEW YORK (Nov. 2, 2006) - Human remains recovered from around the World Trade Center site have been identified as those of a Massachusetts flight attendant killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, officials said.

The city's medical examiner's office announced Wednesday that remains had been identified for three more victims of the attack. The remains were recovered long ago and were not involved in recent discoveries that prompted renewed searches.

The remains belonged to Karen Martin, Douglas Stone and another man whose family asked that his name not be released, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office.

Martin, of Danvers, Mass., was an attendant on American Flight 11 that was hijacked and crashed into the north tower, and Stone, of Dover, N.H., was a passenger.

The identifications were made after the families submitted additional DNA samples to the medical examiner's lab, Borakove said. She declined to comment further on their cases.

The remains of about 40 percent of those killed at the World Trade Center have not been identified.

Over the years, as the medical examiner has tried to identify the remains of the 2,749 victims, some families have occasionally been asked to give more DNA, typically from cheek swabs, to enhance the profile and increase their chance of getting a match.

Meanwhile, New York is hiring several additional forensic experts as it renews its search for remains around the site.

As many as 10 forensic anthropologists will join the search for remains of Sept. 11 victims on the next phase of the project, which could stretch well into next year, Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said.

The work involves tearing up parts of side streets, exploring the rooftops of selected buildings near the 16-acre site, and excavating more manholes beyond the dozen that the city is already exploring.

The current search was prompted by the discovery last month of human bones in an abandoned manhole.

Some 200 pieces of bone and other remains have been found since the accidental discovery last month by utility workers doing routine labor in a manhole along the western edge of the lower Manhattan site. Officials say the manhole had been paved over and forgotten when a service road was built there in the midst of excavating trade center rubble years ago.

Nov. 2, 2006, 8:15PM
Families: Expand search for WTC remains

By AMY WESTFELDT Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Holding loved ones' photographs at the World Trade Center site, more than 150 relatives of Sept. 11 victims urged the city to call in a military unit that specializes in finding and identifying human remains.

The recent discovery of hundreds of body parts in a manhole on the site and in a skyscraper just outside it proves the city didn't do a thorough job, they said in calling for an expanded search.

"We shouldn't have to rally. We shouldn't have to beg," said Robin Audiffred, who has no remains for her husband, James. "You need to make it right. You need to do whatever it takes at this point."

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the unit, called the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, wouldn't be brought in, although the city plans to hire up to 10 more forensic experts.

"We have the expertise in house," Bloomberg said. "This is an investigation where, when you have the expertise, you really want to do it locally. It's the city's responsibility."

Some 200 pieces of bone and other remains have been found since utility workers doing routine work on the western edge of the site found remains in an abandoned manhole. Officials have said the manhole had been paved over and forgotten when a service road was built there during excavation of the trade center's rubble.

After the discovery, city officials identified about 10 more manholes and pockets under the road and ordered them to be excavated immediately and sifted for remains.

The work involves tearing up parts of side streets, exploring the rooftops of selected buildings near the 16-acre site and excavating more manholes beyond the dozen the city is already exploring.

Crews digging into a dozen manholes along the service road should tear it up because more remains could be beneath it, said Norman Siegel, a lawyer for the families. A grass-covered area near ongoing construction of a subway line on the site also needs to be searched, he said.

Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler, who is overseeing a renewed search for remains, has said that area will be examined.

Two high-ranking officials involved in recovery work after the attacks told The Associated Press that the area in question was on one end of a road that carried equipment into the site.

Steel from the trade center had pierced a retaining wall at that spot, making it impossible to completely dig up the area around it by the time the recovery process ended, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the recovery process.

Searches at ground zero continued Thursday. Although no new victims have been identified from the recent finds, the city medical examiner's office said this week that remains were identified for three more victims after the families submitted additional DNA samples to the medical examiner's lab.

That means 1,601 of the 2,749 victims in New York have been identified, including Karen Martin of Danvers, Mass., a flight attendant on the plane that crashed into the north tower.

Martin's cousin, Michelle Pare, said Thursday news of the recovery was "bittersweet."

"We thought she just disintegrated _ her body did _ not her memory," said Pare. "Now it's a bigger relief. We really have her."

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Associated Press writers Sara Kugler in New York and Karen Testa in Boston contributed to this report.

Wendy Burlingame, 32, and her two dogs died when flames ripped through her 10th-floor apartment in Guttenberg, Hudson County.

Burlingame was the daughter of American Airlines pilot Charles (Chick) Burlingame, whose plane crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

"It's just an extreme tragedy," said Tim Sumner, who knew Wendy Burlingame from the 9/11 Families survivor group. "It's an amazing blow to that family."

Wendy Burlingame's aunt, Debra Burlingame, a member of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation board, was too heartbroken to speak last night.

The fire broke out about 12:30 a.m. in the Galaxy Towers apartment Burlingame shared with her fiancé, Kevin Roderick.

Neighbors said Burlingame moved into the apartment overlooking the Hudson River about a month ago. Roderick escaped the fire.

Firefighters battled the stubborn blaze for about three hours before bringing it under control. Firefighters found Burlingame's body in a hallway between the kitchen and a bedroom, investigators said.

"It is suspicious at this point because the cause and origin have not been established," Hudson County Prosecutor Edward De Fazio said.

De Fazio said the fire damaged neighboring apartments. A neighbor reported hearing a commotion coming from Burlingame's apartment just before the fire alarms in the building sounded.

Norman Mineta Confirms That Dick Cheney Ordered Stand Down on 9/11
Former Transportation Secretary Disputes 9/11 Commission Report Timetable for Dick Cheney and Reveals Lynn Cheney Was Also in PEOC Bunker Before Attack

Mineta confirmed his statements with reporters, saying "When I overheard something about 'the orders still stand' and so, what I thought of was that they had already made the decision to shoot something down."

Norman Mineta made it clear to reporters-- who verified his quotes in written text alongside him-- that Mineta was indeed talking about a stand down order not to shoot down hijacked aircraft headed for the Pentagon.

After no shoot down took place, it became clear that Cheney intended to keep NORAD fighter jets from responding-- evidence that Cheney is guilty of treason, not negligence for allowing the Pentagon to be hit.

The idea that "the order still stands" matches up with a change in NORAD and Pentagon orders-- issued on June 1, 2001, only months before 9/11. The document revoked the default standing orders to shoot down errant or hijacked aircraft and instructed them instead to stand down until they were given orders by the President, Vice President or Secretary of Defense.

Mineta was still in the PEOG bunker when the plane was reported down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

"I remember later on when I heard about the Shanksville plane going down, the Vice President was right across from me, and I said, 'Do you think that we shot it down ourselves?' He said, 'I don't know.' He said, 'Let's find out.' So he had someone check with the Pentagon. That was about maybe, let's say 10:30 or so, and we never heard back from the DoD until probably about 12:30. And they said, 'No, we didn't do it.'"

Of course, Donald Rumsfeld has stated before that the plane over Shanksville was "shot down," though whether it was a mistatement or a freudian slip of the truth is arguable. It certainly would seem that the story presented in United 93-- a dramatized account of the official government story-- is much, much less plausible than the plane simply being shot down.

Norman Mineta's Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission-- which was NOT included in the final report and which DISPUTES the Commission's timetable for Vice President Dick Cheney on 9/11

Also, the two hour time delay is suspicious given the Vice President's own account of the dedicated video communications available that morning, as he told it to Tim Russert of Meet the Press on September 16, 2001.

"We had access, secured communications with Air Force One, with the secretary of Defense over in the Pentagon. We had also the secure videoconference that ties together the White House, CIA, State, Justice, Defense--a very useful and valuable facility. We have the counterterrorism task force up on that net. And so I was in a position to be able to see all the stuff coming in, receive reports and then make decisions in terms of acting with it."

At a bare minimum, this confirmation by Norman Mineta is in gross contradiction to the 9/11 Commission Report and poses serious questions about the Vice President's role in ordering NORAD to stand down on 9/11.

FROM: http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2007/06/26/norman-mineta-confirms-that-dick-cheney-ordered-stand-down-on-911/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jonesreport.com%2Farticles%2F260607_mineta.html&frame=true