Contrary to previous US Armed Forces Mortuary claims, 9/11 remains dumped in landfill.

Contrary to previous US Armed Forces Mortuary claims, 9/11 remains dumped in landfill.(IT).(CNN).Retired General John Abizaid, who is in charge of the independent review of the practices at the Armed Forces Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base (AFB), briefed Pentagon reporters on Tuesday, saying it was unclear how many victims’ partial remains were disposed of in this manner.
The report contradicted a 2011 US Air Force account that claimed there were no records showing how remains at Dover were handled before 2003.
Washington: Partial remains of some victims of the September 11 attacks were dumped in a landfill, the Pentagon revealed on Tuesday for the first time, issuing a report that exposed years of bungling at the US military's most important mortuary.
The portions of remains that ended up at a landfill came from the 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and from a hijacked airliner that went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on 9/11, according to the report by an independent panel.
The revelation came from a review of the troubled mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, which has been blamed for mishandling the remains of some troops killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The details about the 9/11 remains were mentioned only in passing in the report, which focused on how to fix management problems at the troubled mortuary.
Any remains related to 9/11 carry a special significance for Americans and the White House promptly issued a statement, saying the Pentagon was taking steps to ensure such mistakes "never happen again.""We are deeply concerned about reports that in 2001, some unidentified portions of remains from the 9/11 attacks were disposed of in a landfill, and about the unacceptable handling of remains at Dover," the White House said.Officials said it was unclear how many victims might be involved or whether some of the remains belonged to the al-Qaida hijackers.
The military had acknowledged last year that some portions of remains of fallen soldiers at the Dover mortuary in Delaware had been incinerated and sent to a Virginia landfill, a practice that was halted in 2008.The military now disposes of unidentified cremated remains at sea.But the review released on Tuesday said "several portions of remains from the Pentagon attack and the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, crash site" also were taken to an unidentified landfill."These cremated portions were then placed in sealed containers that were provided to a biomedical waste disposal contractor," it said.The report contradicts a 2011 US Air Force account which said there were no records that showed how remains at Dover were handled before 2003.Air Force Secretary Michael Donley told a news conference on Tuesday he was not aware that some remains of 9/11 victims had been taken to a landfill, saying: "This is new information to me."
But retired Army general John Abizaid, who led the review, said he had briefed all the armed services on his report's findings.
The coroner in Pennsylvania's Somerset County who oversaw the recovery of remains from hijacked Flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette he was surprised to hear that any remains could have been taken to a landfill.Hmmmm......."Officials said it was unclear how many victims might be involved or whether some of the remains belonged to the al-Qaida hijackers"....I can hear another 'Apology' coming in the distance.Read the full story here.