More Human Remains Found At Ground Zero

(CBS/AP)  Workers found yet more human remains at the World Trade Center site Saturday during a renewed search for 9/11 victims.

The city began a new search after a Con Edison crew made the surprise discovery of body parts earlier in the week while excavating a manhole near the southern edge of Ground Zero. The human remains found on Saturday were located in manholes along a service road on the West Side of the World Trade Center side.

Utility and city officials hand-removed material from other manholes after tearing into the pavement on a service road along the site's western edge. It was then sifted onsite by forensic officials for fragments of human remains.

Nearly 100 fragments of human remains have been found this past week.

Relatives of the 9/11 victims demanded that the city stop construction and concentrate efforts on a thorough recovery of human remains. Some called for the federal government to lead a new search.

Charles Wolf, who lost his wife on 9/11, hoped that construction would cease until all remains have been recovered. "The construction workers themselves ought to voluntarily say, 'I am not going to construct anymore until we find the rest of these body parts,'" he told WCBS-TV.

Corin Clifton, a visitor to the WTC site, does not think the building process should be stopped. "We lost loved ones," she told WCBS-TV, "but they now became part of history. So their souls are going to be here forever. So, rebuild."

More than 1,100 victims of the World Trade Center attack remain unidentified or their remains haven't been recovered.

The city on Friday had expected to look through about six manholes and subterranean pockets, but the search was expanded to 10 after utility maps and other tools showed there were more cavities than previously believed, and will continue throughout the week, officials said.

The 80 bones and fragments found Thursday ranged from a little less than an inch to 12 inches long, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner's office. The bones possibly include ribs, arms, legs and vertebra, she said.

The work earlier this week on the service road is part of more extensive construction of a 1,776-foot skyscraper, transit hub and memorial on the 16-acre site. The active search for the dead ended at the site in 2002 after a massive cleanup of 1.5 million tons of debris.

About 20,000 pieces of human remains were found, but the DNA in thousands of those pieces was too damaged by heat, humidity and time to yield matches in the many tests forensic scientists have tried over the years.

More than 40 percent of the 2,749 Sept. 11 victims in New York have never been identified.

Some relatives of the dead have asked for the city to enlist the help of a military unit known as the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, which specializes in finding and identifying the remains of missing troops.

The mayor's office said in a message to the families Saturday that two experts on the city's forensic team are former members of that unit. They "have advised us that the command's expertise is searching for missing soldiers, not bone fragments. We have the best possible people working through the weekend on this effort."

[emhawks]

To xenality:
I'm not playing Mulder & Skully from X-Files & as for deepening the bi-partisan chasm in this country, I don't think it can get much deeper than it already is. You're definitely entitled to your own opinion & I respect that. Fortunately, we live in a country where we can publicly debate/discuss our opinions.
I believe Bush/Cheney & other individuals within this adm., were involved in 911. I think the 911 investigation should be re-opened. Many families of the 911 victims feel this way & are suspicious of a government cover-up. I would never say to the families of the 911 victims,"We've been in mourning 5yrs.---it's time to move on."
There're other individuals with more education/training than I have, who believe Bush/Cheney were involved in 911 & that the 911 investigation should be re-opened. Look up Scholars for 9-11 Truth & read the list of members.
Also, @ this blog site on a previous post, I listed other groups/organizations of interest that can be found on the Internet.

[sassalin]

I hope you all understand that you sound CRAZY.

Sometimes things are the way they look....A tragic event used to kill Americans plus all the other nationalties. As far as heat goes did you see the footage....looked like fire to me.

Lets focus on the fact that people were killed and we should respect them and their families....not make their pain about "getting George Bush"

[xenalily]

Dear emhawks,
I am about as Liberal as they come and even I can't buy into the conspiracy theories of 9/11. Stop playing Mulder and Skully from X-Files and pay attention to the present day. Stop trying to deepen the bi-partisan chasm in this country. I can't stand Bush and his band of liars and theives but I cannot sit here and say that I truly feel he had anything to do with implementing these attacks. The attacks on September 11 are used as an excuse for everything and I, for one, am tired of having it shoved down my throat every single day. It happened, it was tragic, but there are a lot of other people dying in tragedies all over the world every single day! Every one has been in mourning for five years- it's time to move on!

[oniman1]

To themooniac: next time you talk to the King, please remind hime he still owes me 50 bucks from the Gulf of Tonkin!
To New York City, will you please have real investigators do a real investigation? Please?

[themooniac]

Yeah, the Americans panned and executed 9/11 along with their Zionist co-conspirators, at least thats what Elvis Presley told me. Oh yeah, and the Trilateral commision was in on it too, and the guy on the grassy knoll. The idea that it was a bunch of whack Muslims waiting for the Mahdi to return to restore the Caliphate is just a rumor spread by the f**king Jews! Geez, get real sport, take your prozac and get back into therapy.

[link39]

To Jihadidujour:
I think people like you dishonor the victims by ignoring the fact that we have made no attempt to catch the people that killed them. Were you aware that the Bush administration was offered Bin Laden a few months before 9/11 and no major news services called him on it? Here is a clip from MSNBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jtfGtWKqh4

[link39]

I have some crazy questions. If the buildings collapsed by pancaking (the official version), how do you get bone fragments on top of buildings across the street and in manholes underground? Would you not have many bodies crushed in the rubble instead of pieces scattered every where? Why is the DNA damaged by heat? If most of the people died from being crushed, there should not have been any heat damage.

[emhawks]

To Jihadidujour:
It's no fairy tale & I have not disgraced myself nor the victims/families of 911.
If you're interested, there is alot of information available on the Internet about the following:
The Carlyle Group
Project for the New American Century(PNAC)
Halliburton
Bechtel
Brown & Root
Saudi Binladen Group(SBG)
History about the involvement of the Bush family with the bin Laden family.
Read the book "Crossing the Rubicon" by Michael C. Ruppert.

[oniman1]

Just another unanswered question among thousands.
I work in underground utility spaces with "manhole" covers (about 80lbs each) and entry is difficult.
Who were these people and how did their remains get there?

[jihadidujour]

Good Grief! Stop believing in fairy tales. The believers in "The Religion of Peace" planned and executed 9/11. Stop disgraceing yourself and the victims of this terrorist act.