9/11 death toll drops again

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.itv.com/news/2063117.html

The number of people killed in the attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade Center has dropped by 40 to 2,752 after investigators found further incidence of fraud, duplication and people once thought dead.

The official death toll has fluctuated frequently since the attack on the twin towers on the morning of September 11, 2001, at a time when tens of thousands were normally in the vicinity of the lower Manhattan complex.

A spokeswoman for the city's medical examiner said: "Forty names have been taken off the list. Two or three are still being investigated, so those could still be removed in the future."

For more than a year the figure has remained at 2,792, according to police and the medical examiner.

The revision changes the overall official number of those killed in attacks by four hijacked aircraft to 2,985.

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I have been hearing Repug pundits referring to the death toll of 911 at 7000 in past weeks. Has anyone else noticed this?

[La_Serpiente]

1. I have become so sick of Republicans

they have dropped off of my mental screen.

[kayell]

2. Really?

Have that many NYers died from the poisoned air that * and his minions hid from the residents and emergency workers as they moved back into the area???

[westernunion]

3. THE TRUTH ABOUT 9/11

Two years after the Sept 9 suicide attacks on the United States, this earthshaking event remains clouded by mystery and misunderstanding.

Was al-Qaida behind the operation? Most likely, but not for certain. Secretary of State Colin Powell promised a white paper proving al-Qaida’s guilt. It never came. A tape that surfaced in 2002, purporting to show Osama bin Laden gleefully chortling over the attacks, was a fake.

The 9/11 attacks were planned in Germany and Spain, not Afghanistan, by young men, mostly Saudis, who were educated and westernized.

Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, until four months before 9/11 a recipient of US aid, had nothing to do with the attacks, but did provide a base for al-Qaida, which numbered only 300 members.

Most of the `thousands of terrorists’ in Afghanistan cited by the US were actually independence-fighters from neighboring Central Asia. Taliban refused to hand bin Laden, a national hero of the 1980’s anti-Soviet war, to the US without proof of his guilt in 9/11, which the US declined to provide.

9/11 allowed far right neo-conservatives, some borderline neo-fascists, to seize control of US national security policy. They immediately launched the invasion of Afghanistan and began preparing war against Iraq. We now know both invasions, intended to seize major oil regions, were planned long before 9/11.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Welcome to DU, westernunion! I believe you are spot on. n/t

[TahitiNut]

5. Old news - Not LBN - 15.35PM GMT, 29 Oct 2003

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