Pentagon Admits To Dumping 9/11 Bodies In Landfill Starting In 2001
The US Defense Department on Tuesday admitted that it dumped some of the cremated remains of 9/11 victims in a landfill following the worst terrorist attack in US history.
The disclosure occurred in two paragraphs of an 86-page report that was put together by an independent task force that was reviewing operations at the military’s mortuary at Dover, Del.
When asked about that particular part of the report retired Army Gen. John Abizaid was forceful in his response:
“We did not spend a great deal of time and effort and energy” on the matter, while added “It’s my report, but it’s not the focus of the report.”
The task force was commissioned with examining how remained were disposed of after an Air Force investigation which runs the Dover facility was founded to not have handled 9/11 victim remains “in accordance with procedures.”
The Air Force had already admitted to disposing of 274 service members in the landfill dating back to 2003 however the independent panel found that those remains were actually disposed of since 2001.
According to the report remains from the Pentagon and at Shanksville, Pa., also ended up in a landfill:
Prior to 2008, portions of remains that could neither be tested nor identified, and portions of remains later identified that the [family or other representative] requested not to be notified of (requesting that they be appropriately disposed of) were cremated under contract at a civilian crematory and returned to [Dover]. This policy began shortly after September 11, 2001, when several portions of remains from the Pentagon attack and the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, crash site could not be tested or identified.
These cremated portions were then placed in sealed containers that were provided to a biomedical waste disposal contractor. Per the biomedical waste contract at that time, the contractor then transported these containers and incinerated them. The assumption on the part of [Dover] was that after final incineration nothing remained. A [Dover] management query found that there was some residual material following incineration and that the contractor was disposing of it in a landfill. The landfill disposition was not disclosed in the contractual disposal agreement.
Do you think the armed services erred in how they chose to dispose of 9/11 victims remains?
Tags : 911 Victims, Landfill, New York, New York City, NYC, Pentagon, September 11, Terrorist Attacks
Posted: February 28, 2012
![Kansas TV Station Stabbing: Man Breaks Into Topeka’s WIBW News Station, Stabs 2 Employees [Video]](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/05/kansas-tv-station-stabbing-2012-wibw-tv-ray-miles-100x100.jpg)
![Katherine Heigl Shows Off Newly Adopted Daughter [Pics]](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/05/katherine-heigl-adopted-daughter-pics-1-100x100.jpg)
![Miley Cyrus Flashes Side Boob, Talks About Losing Her Viginity [Photo, NSFW]](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/05/o-MILEY-CYRUS-SIDE-BOOB-SEX-SCENE-VIRGINITY-570-100x100.jpg)
![Grieving Pit Bull Stays with Dead Mate for 14 Hours [Video]](http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/05/grieving-pit-bull-phoenix-arizona-2012-video-100x100.jpg)
Feb 29, 2012
regardless of what may have been left at one point in time that was a person, a living breathing human being and on top of that they were a victim of a terrible crime against humanity and their remains, instead of being buried with the respect and dignity they so deserved they were tossed in a garbage dump? what is this country coming to? all they had to do was make a mass grave with a headstone or monument with the names of the people on it and that would have been acceptable, but no they couldn't do that….sometimes the way this country is ran makes me flat out sick! and for the ones that approved of this, when you pass on maybe youll get tossed in with the trash too then you can see how it feels
Feb 29, 2012
this is sickening.
Feb 29, 2012
This is just wrong!
Feb 29, 2012
absolutely inexcuseable
Feb 29, 2012
Disgusting! there had to be a better way to dispose of these remains. It is so disrespectful.
Feb 29, 2012
hi, i'm from the government and i'm here to help you.
Feb 29, 2012
I am amazed and disgusted. Someone is a sicko. WTH?
Feb 29, 2012
I can see a Law Suit comin…
Feb 29, 2012
this was wrong in any manner that anyone should look at this…Some one needs to at least let their family's know what was done to there loved ones…
Feb 29, 2012
And to think this is our country the good old U S of A! Sickening!
Feb 29, 2012
And to think this is our country the good old U S of A! Sickening!
Feb 29, 2012
And to think this is our country the good old U S of A! Sickening!
Feb 29, 2012
Unable to identify or nothing enough to test, and/or families asked NOT to be notified, so how do you know what they were disposing of. I'd like to ask James…..what would yo have done with that much "ash", in order to clean up the sight. Would you haul it to a specific location and let every family member take a box of ashes? Even knowing many remains were mixed together. It's sad, but what else could they do.
Feb 29, 2012
Of course it's sad and a bit sickening, but that's because someone thought the world should know, and stick that sickening information out there. But, I ask my former question again……..what would (any of) you do with all the remains that couldn't be identified or families asked not to have it identified or returned?
Feb 29, 2012
Disgusting. God bless there souls may theyRIP government has no respect
Feb 29, 2012
The good old U S of A is not the same anymore at all. Now we question authority and are dis-trustful of people we used to think were on our side!
Feb 29, 2012
These were just the Pentagon and Shanksville. The WTC remains were so destroyed and mixed with dust and ash, we all know deep down maybe, that some of those remains ended up at the unfortunately named Freshkills Landfill. They are still finding bone fragments on the tops of buildings in Lower Manhattan. Does anyone know where they end up? I don't
Feb 29, 2012
Kerri Tang They could have been made a part of a memorial site or something, somehow. Not thrown in with a bunch of other garbage.
Feb 29, 2012
Kerri Tang They could have been put in a mass burrial anywhere. Thats what they did in the Cival War era. So much more respectful that throwing them in a land fill. It is so sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feb 29, 2012
Kerri Tang the american people should have been polled as to what ton do with the remains!!
Feb 29, 2012
In Hawaii, they make orchids and other beautiful things from volcanic ash and sell them to tourists, perhaps making them into small bricks with a logo and a nice phrase would have been better, then they could have included them into the memorial.
Feb 29, 2012
They knew they did this, a friend of mine who son died on 9/11 told me about this long ago.
"Hello..we're your local Government, everything we say is above reproach". They wish!
Why is it that the people of the USA have to find out about all the conspiracies that Government commit against the people..after the fact? Why do these things happen? Stiffer fines and penalties for any Agency causing this turmoil in.
American lives. The Government Agencies need to take out an Insurance Policy paid for by the people who run these Agencies (out of their own pocket's and not reimbursed by their salaries.) There has to come a responsibility in the running of these Agencies, not an overrunning of the American people.
Hold their feet to the fire and this crap won't happen. Why should American's ever get convicted of any laws when Government is allowed to perform atrocities against the people?
Mar 5, 2012
Olivia C Rodriguez & Mary Dunning~No, no poll. The families of the victims were asked, and it was THEIR decision, with all due respect….not yours to make. We have 2 friends who lost family in the WTC attack. They were notified, they had a container w/the ashes, knowing it could have been one of any of the 3000 or not…..it all came together, that's what the families were dealing with. If you think for one minute that the excavation and disposing of all that was at the WTC sight, wasn't emotional, you would be wrong. Don't condemn someone until you've walked in their shoes.
Mar 5, 2012
Olivia C Rodriguez & Mary Dunning~No, no poll. The families of the victims were asked, and it was THEIR decision, with all due respect….not yours to make. We have 2 friends who lost family in the WTC attack. They were notified, they had a container w/the ashes, knowing it could have been one of any of the 3000 or not…..it all came together, that's what the families were dealing with. If you think for one minute that the excavation and disposing of all that was at the WTC sight, wasn't emotional, you would be wrong. Don't condemn someone until you've walked in their shoes.