More on the Hijacker Remains

There continues to be a controversy regarding the remains of the hijackers. More evidence for the troofers to ignore.

In the first two weeks after 9/11, Miller and his team identified 16 of the 44 passengers and crew aboard Flight 93 through fingerprint and dental records. For others, he turned to DNA testing. Hairbrushes and razors collected from the families of the victims provided DNA to match up with human fragments pulled from the wrecked plane.

Like Shaler in New York, Miller met with families of the victims, and they, too, wanted to know if the remains of the hijackers were being sifted out. Miller explained to them that it wasn't as simple as that. There were still some 300 pounds of unidentified remains. Much of it had been damaged beyond recognition by exposure to air and 11,000 gallons of jet fuel. "I told them there would likely be terrorist remains interspersed with them," says Miller. "There were varying degrees of angst and anger about that."

Still, he did what he could to honor the request. Miller and his team sent fragments from the Pennsylvania crash site for testing at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Md. "Our priority was not the hijackers, it was getting the victims back to their families," says Brion Smith, the lab's director. But the remains of the terrorists stood out. Four of the DNA profiles from the Pennsylvania crash site didn't match material provided by the families of passengers and crew. By simple process of elimination, Smith knew these were the hijackers. He sent the samples back to Miller along with the genetic codes.

It was just what Miller was hoping for. With those four profiles in hand, he could weed out the terrorists' remains. He went to the freezers, which were filled with thousands of painstakingly bagged and tagged human fragments retrieved from the crash. Miller scanned the icy plastic bags, looking for genetic profiles that matched Smith's data. He pulled out four bags and laid them on a large table. "All that remained of the four men was less than 10 pounds" of fragments, Miller says. "I had about 48 samples that were associated with the terrorists, mostly bony tissue and I think maybe some scalp with hair on it." He also couldn't tell which set of remains belonged to which terrorist. "Obviously none of the terrorists' families came forward with any information—they were like four John Does," says Miller. "So I just referred to them as Terrorist A, B, C and D."

The 9/11 Narrative

As debunkers are always pointing out, conspiracy theorists have fervently avoided coming up with a 9/11 narrative. With leading figures such as David Ray Griffin specifically warning them not to do so. As a result the best narratives that have been done are parodies, like that of Matt Taibbi. Whenever they do attempt to do so though, they end up sound like paradies, for example this discussion of United 93 from the increasingly inaccurately named "Veterans for 9/11 Truth" mailing list. I will leave the name off to protect the guilty.

Fight 93 was shot down and it landed at Cleveland. Let me clarify. As the "Operation Northwoods" document (blue print for 911) points out. They rendezvoused a drone painted to resemble, somewhat, a commercial airliner, and containing incendiaries/explosives. Once it intercepted the flight path of 93, the original flight was diverted to the international airport at Cleveland. While it was in route, the drone was, for what ever reason, shot down near Shanksville, Pa. It was either shot down by an eager pilot they failed to exercise control over, or Cheney decided that it was better for the plan as it had unfolded to that point to bring the drone down. Because that was what was found near Shanksville. It was certainly not a commercial airline.

According to the Cleveland papers and United Airlines, the people aboard flight 93 were evacuated after it landed due to a reported bomb threat. They were apparently evacuated to a government/NASA hanger.Most likely they were killed to provide bodies for the morgue. They would need bodies to support their cover story of a commercial airline, flight 77 hitting the Pentagon, another lie. I don't recall, but can look it up where they said the 911 bodies were shipped to. I think it was a morgue in Northern Virginia or somewhere in Maryland.

Medals Proposed for United 93 Passengers

As this blog strives to be non-partisan, I don't want to get into the political aspects of this, but I found it an interesting story regarding the controversy over how to recognize the passengers of United 93:

An effort to award the Gold Medal posthumously to the passengers and crew of Flight 93 began a few days after the attacks. On September 20, 2001, three bills were introduced in the House proposing that Congress give the Gold Medal to various people aboard the fated plane.

Rep. Marge Roukema's bill singled out just one passenger, Jeremy Glick, who hailed from her New Jersey district. Rep. Cliff Stearns's bill sought to honor everyone on the doomed flight. Finally, Rep. Tom Tancredo's bill proposed awarding the Gold Medal to:

Jeremy Glick, Todd Beamer, Thomas Burnett, Jr., and Mark Bingham; and other passengers or crew members on board United Airlines Flight 93 who are identified by the Attorney General as having aided in the effort to resist the hijackers on board the plane.

This last proposal ultimately garnered the most support, attracting 235 cosponsors--just 55 short of the required two-thirds. The wording of the bill nicely captured the spirit of Flight 93 and seemed most in line with the original conception of the Gold Medal, stating: "The leaders of the resistance aboard United Airlines Flight 93 demonstrated exceptional bravery, valor, and patriotism, and are worthy of the appreciation of the people of the United States."

So when are Avery, Jones, Gage, Gold et al going to start protesting the awarding of medals to people who they claim did nothing?

Flight 93 Revealed... As A Silly Book

I checked the 9-11 section at the local library today and discovered a recent addition called "Flight 93 Revealed", which professes to tell us what really happened on the hero flight.

One of the things I like to check with these conspiracy theory books is how long it takes for them to lie or make a mistake. This one might just set the all-time record, with a glaring boner in the very first sentence:

The official story of Flight 93 tells of four men who checked in at the United Airlines ticket counter at Boston Logan airport on 11 September 2001 bound for Los Angeles on United 93, a Boeing 757 airliner.

Well, he got the date right, and the fact that the plane used for Flight 93 was a Boeing 757. However, the flight did not originate from Boston Logan, but from Newark.

Crack (pipe) job of journalism by the author, Rowland Morgan, who by the way was the origin for the story David Ray Griffin bought that AA #77 had no Airfones on board. Countdown to people claiming he's a CIA asset....