NEW YORK, July 10, 2008
Official 9/11 Death Toll Climbs By One
Missing NYC Doctor The 2,751st Victim Of World Trade Center Attack
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Flowers are left hanging on the fence surrounding the perimeter of Ground Zero on the eve of 6th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Monday, Sept. 10, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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The city medical examiner's office said that Dr. Sneha Anne Philip, 31, was the 2,751st victim killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
It cited the Jan. 31 court ruling in a brief release, saying the state Supreme Court's appellate division "determined that Sneha Anne Philip died at the World Trade Center. Therefore, we have added her name to the list of World Trade Center victims."
Philip's family went to court to restore her name to the victims' list. She was cut from the list in 2004 by officials who said they couldn't definitively link her to the site because she didn't work there and went missing a day earlier.
Philip, a resident physician at a Staten Island hospital, was last seen on videotape buying shoes and lingerie at a department store across from the trade center on Sept. 10, 2001. Investigators once thought she could have been a victim of another crime, or had disappeared on her own to escape troubles with her marriage and alcohol.
Her family believed she likely attended a party held by the city's South Asian community in a hotel in the trade center complex on Sept. 10, and died while helping wounded people in front of the towers before they collapsed.
"The evidence shows it to be highly probable that she died that morning and at that site, whereas only the rankest speculation leads to any other conclusion," the court wrote.
Her father, Philip K. Philip, said Thursday his family would attend this year's anniversary ceremony to hear his daughter's name read, as it was the first two years after the attacks.
"We waited and we waited, and everything came out right," Philip said. "Sadness is there all the time, but at last, you know, we are happy that they recognized that Sneha was a victim of 9/11."
A New York court issued a similar ruling in 2002 after the family of a computer analyst who worked several blocks away from ground zero fought successfully to add him to the victims' list. In May 2007, the medical examiner's office added the name of a woman who died five months after the attacks of respiratory illness linked to breathing in toxic trade center dust.
Philip's name will also be listed at the memorial to the 2001 attacks being built in New York. The number of people killed when four hijacked jets crashed into the trade center, the Pentagon and a western Pennsylvania field is now 2,975.
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- I am very pro government. But this time they drop the ball.
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- ALALABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) - Official investigations have found that US-led air strikes a week ago killed 64 people, most of them women and children, the heads of separate investigation teams said Friday.
WHEN WILL THE ENDLESS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION BY THE US STOP !!
Lied into Needless War
Hundreds of Thousands shot or blown to bits
HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of Dollars WASTED
FIVE MILES of end-to-end US Troop COFFINS
War Profiteers, Haliburton, Blackwater, Abu Gharib, Secret Renditions....
Tax Cuts for the Rich! $4/gal gas for the rest of us
Good jobs exported overseas
Corporate Welfare in the BILLIONS
Corporate Lobbyists writing our Laws
Deregulate Banking -- Housing Foreclosure MESS
and on and on and on and on.....
WANT MORE OF THE SAME? VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN - Reply to this comment
- "Maybe she stayed overnite at the WTC with some guy who she met at the party." Posted by BajaJohn1
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Maybe she spent the night in Atlantic City, NJ and was nowhere near the WTC on 9/11. - Reply to this comment
- To those of you who suggest that getting a name on the list of WTC victims is a move to get money: the federal pool of money available to victims'' families no longer exists. It has not been since 2003.
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- It is a shame it ook this long to recognize her as a victim. Hopefully this also gives the family some closure to ths tragedy.
Posted by patriot12436 at 12:01 AM : Jul 11, 2008
It''s a super stretch to make any claim she is "victim" of 9-11 knowing she went missing on 9-10...
And the family...I think they see $$$$ signs... - Reply to this comment
- "Genocidal policies?" What the hell are you talking about??? In Iraq, the citizens of that country no longer fear the torture, repression and summary executions under Saddam.
Posted by krisinal
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I''m sure your rationale for the murderous actions of the United States'' Middle East foreign policy are comforting words to the families of the innocent lives that have been snuffed out all in the name of spreading western style "democracy." - Reply to this comment
- questionnews,
Rather than summarily dimissing the article, could you please comment on or dispute the facts in the article??? - Reply to this comment
- The surge worked?!?! Really? Check out the result of the surge at the below link.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics
/story/18722376/the_myth_of_the_surge
Posted by miles1967 at 01:59 PM : Jul 11, 2008
Rollingstone mag is as much left-wing rag as Fox news is a right-wing banner carrier. Only committed "Party People" pull articles from type of sources. - Reply to this comment
- inventagod2....Where have you been?..."Inventing" more B.S. and lies?..."Osama Bin Laden and 19 Al Qaeda hijackers did 9/11....All of you "inside job" people probably believe in alien abductions as well.
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- vranger, give us a break and quit adding politics to this sad story.
The surge worked?!?! Really? Check out the result of the surge at the below link.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18722376/the_myth_of_the_surge - Reply to this comment
- A story about a doctor who likely was killed by falling debris while tending the injured near the world trade center, for these morons, is just another excuse for spewing lies, ignorance, and hate.
Be ashamed of yourselves. The USA is not committing genocide, but we have put a stop to it many times over the last 60 years. People in Iraq are being killed by Islamic terrorists, but in fewer numbers than before ... the surge WORKED ... we know that you''re disappointed that your narrow little view of the world was wrong, but get over it. Going thru life self deluded will only keep you in that trailer park indefinitely. - Reply to this comment
- mustang4mom, your idea is a brilliant one!
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- American doctors kill 106,000 in the USA every year with medical mistakes. The wars in Iraq and Afghanastan claim fewer lives. Bring the troops home and send all American doctors to the war zone and the war should be over in about 18 months.
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- "Speaking of STUPID - maybe you need to go get a DICtionary and look up plausible. People like you degrade the credibility of any intelligent conversation." Posted by USlackJaw
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The definition of "trustworthy or seemingly true" could apply to either scenario. There are a million possibilities to explain what happened to this woman. The fact is that not one can be proven.
By the way, do you always come out of the gate name-calling? Your mother must be very proud of you. - Reply to this comment
- To say she died while helping survivors is as plausible as saying she was abducted by aliens.
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Speaking of STUPID - maybe you need to go get a DICtionary and look up plausible. People like you degrade the credibility of any intelligent conversation. - Reply to this comment
- What''s the current death toll of all the 9/11''s the United States has inflicted on innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan on its "war on terror?"
For those who follow the military reports, innocent civilians are referred to as "collateral damage."
And when and where will the memorial be built for all of these nameless souls whose lives were snuffed out in the name of "democracy?" - Reply to this comment
- Philip''s name will also be listed at the memorial to the 2001 attacks being built in New York. The number of people killed when FOUR hijacked jets crashed into the trade center, the Pentagon and a western Pennsylvania field is now 2,975.
Actually the other two were cruise missles..... - Reply to this comment
- INSIDE JOB !!
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- "months after an appeals court declared there was no other plausible reason for her disappearance."
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This is a stupid statement. There are any number of reasons for, and methods of, her disappearance. To say she died while helping survivors is as plausible as saying she was abducted by aliens. - Reply to this comment
- If this woman is dead, then may she rest in peace; however, it is really a stretch to attribute any and all deaths within a 72 hour window beginning 9/10 and within a 5 block radius of the WTC to be a result of the 9/11 disaster. Especially if they didn''t work onsite at the WTC.
If we are going to work with this guideline, then let''s add the guy living in Phoenix, AZ, who dropped dead of a heart attack upon hearing of the disaster.
Why stop there? Everyone who died, worldwide, during the 72 hour window beginning 9/10/01 is an official victim of the WTC disaster. - Reply to this comment
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