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Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York Medical Examiner's Office, said the identifications had been made using DNA samples provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The FBI had collected the DNA from tiny traces of skin on the steering wheels of vehicles hired by the hijackers and from hair samples recovered from their hotel rooms.
Originally posted by jam321
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the New York Medical Examiner's Office, said the identifications had been made using DNA samples provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The FBI had collected the DNA from tiny traces of skin on the steering wheels of vehicles hired by the hijackers and from hair samples recovered from their hotel rooms.
news.bbc.co.uk...
Now the question is how did the FBI know whose hair was whose and whose skin was whose?
You raise interesting questions
posted by talisman
Help me out on this.
They recovered DNA from WTC?
thnks.
Published Jan 3, 2009
Today, 1,126 of the 2,751 victims from the World Trade Center and five individuals from the Pentagon have yet to be identified at all—none of their remains and no traces of their DNA have been found.
Scientists are still trying. More than seven years later, the effort continues to identify the missing victims—and hijackers. Shaler and his successors have fulfilled at least part of their promise to the families. Through a combination of innovative DNA-mapping techniques, help from the FBI's crime lab and dumb luck, the scientists have now ID'd four of the 10 New York hijackers. The remains of the nine hijackers from the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash sites have also been confirmed; six other hijackers have yet to be identified.
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posted by Lillydale
One) Where exactly did they supposedly find the hijacker's DNA within the rubble of the WTC collapses?
EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Enhanced: DNA Identifications After the 9/11 World Trade Center Attack - Science 18 November 2005
The attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 challenged current approaches to forensic DNA typing methods. The large number of victims and the extreme thermal and physical conditions of the site necessitated special approaches to the DNA-based identification. Because of these and many additional challenges, new procedures were created or modified from routine forensic protocols. This effort facilitated the identification of 1594 of the 2749 victims. In this Policy Forum, the authors, who were were members of the World Trade Center Kinship and Data Analysis Panel, review the lessons of the attack response from the perspective of DNA forensic identification and suggest policies and procedures for future mass disasters or large-scale terrorist attacks.
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posted by Lillydale
reply to post by SPreston
I forgot all about the stolen ID's. I remember reading one of the OSers fall all over themselves trying to explain how they compared the DNA they 'recovered from the crash site' to stolen identity DNA and new it was a match even before they new the identities were stolen which would mean they had the wrong DNA or these men stole DNA and replaced their own or they were lying when they said that they identified them.
September 21, 2001
(CNN) -- FBI Director Robert Mueller has acknowledged that some of those behind last week's terror attacks may have stolen the identification of other people, and, according to at least one security expert, it may have been "relatively easy" based on their level of sophistication.
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June 24, 2003
While there is no doubt the hijackings were the work of al-Qaeda, questions remain about whether some of the hijackers actually were the men the FBI identified. Last year that doubt crept into the highest levels of law enforcement after a series of sensational news reports aired by the BBC, ABC and CNN, along with several British newspapers, cast suspicion on whether the FBI got it right. The reports suggested at least six of the men the FBI claimed were hijackers on the planes were in fact alive. They didn't survive the crashes, of course, but never boarded the planes.
The six claimed they were victims of identify theft. They were "outraged" to be identified as terrorists, they told the Telegraph of London. In fact, one of the men claimed he never had been to the United States, while another is a Saudi Airlines pilot who said he was in a flight-training course in Tunisia at the time of the attacks.
The stunning news prompted FBI Director Robert Mueller to admit that some of the hijackers may have stolen identities of innocent citizens. In September 2002, Mueller told CNN twice that there is "no legal proof to prove the identities of the suicidal hijackers." After that admission a strange thing happened - nothing. No follow-up stories. No follow-up questions. There was dead silence and the story disappeared. It was almost as if no one wanted to know what had happened. In fact, the FBI didn't bother to change the names, backgrounds or photographs of the alleged 19 hijackers. It didn't even deny the news reports suggesting that the names and identities of at least six of the hijackers may be unknown. Mueller just left the door open.
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Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Lillydale
Honest, this isn't really about DNA, not here. Lilly, this is a common tactic, displayed repeatedly. Why not move it over to a thread specfic to DNA???
Then they had a list of every tourist, visitor, and client in the buildings that day and were able to gather a sample of each and every person so they had a pool from which to use this process of elimination?
But, before you go, consider taking this thought with you:
A little bit of research into the actual methods, techniques, and science of DNA collecting, matching and forensics might be worthwhile study subject.
Just sayin'.....
Oh, and just for a hint: Let's say (and glad this is probably not the case) that you personally knew a visitor, tourist or client that was in o ne of the Towers that morning, and was never seen again. Is it fair to then assume that perhaps that individual might have been a victim in the collapse of the building? Is it not obvious that the individual would have personal items in his/her bathroom, bedroom, car...whatever...from which a representative DNA sample could be isolated, for a hope of a match at some time in the future???
Over simplified, but isn't that the basis of how DNA works, in such cases???
One) Where exactly did they supposedly find the hijacker's DNA within the rubble of the WTC collapses?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Lillydale
Honest, this isn't really about DNA, not here. Lilly, this is a common tactic, displayed repeatedly. Why not move it over to a thread specfic to DNA???
Then they had a list of every tourist, visitor, and client in the buildings that day and were able to gather a sample of each and every person so they had a pool from which to use this process of elimination?
But, before you go, consider taking this thought with you:
A little bit of research into the actual methods, techniques, and science of DNA collecting, matching and forensics might be worthwhile study subject.
Just sayin'.....
Oh, and just for a hint: Let's say (and glad this is probably not the case) that you personally knew a visitor, tourist or client that was in o ne of the Towers that morning, and was never seen again. Is it fair to then assume that perhaps that individual might have been a victim in the collapse of the building? Is it not obvious that the individual would have personal items in his/her bathroom, bedroom, car...whatever...from which a representative DNA sample could be isolated, for a hope of a match at some time in the future???
Over simplified, but isn't that the basis of how DNA works, in such cases???
Originally posted by Lillydale
reply to post by weedwhacker
I am replying to you in a DNA related thread It would be lovely if you could answer me there.
Well, for starters, the hijackers were mostly from Egypt and Lebanon. Second - this may be the shocker for some posters here - their families did not want their sons, cousins, brothers, etc to have been the hijackers. They gave samples in the hopes that it would prove negative - both to maintain their family's dignity and to hope that their kids hadn't, y'know, comitted suicide in what is today one of the most infamous acts of terrorism i nthe world.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by Lillydale
Well, for starters, the hijackers were mostly from Egypt and Lebanon. Second - this may be the shocker for some posters here - their families did not want their sons, cousins, brothers, etc to have been the hijackers. They gave samples in the hopes that it would prove negative - both to maintain their family's dignity and to hope that their kids hadn't, y'know, comitted suicide in what is today one of the most infamous acts of terrorism i nthe world.
of course... Asking HOW the original DNA samples were obtained is a pretty good question. Fire hot enough to weaken steel support beams isn't real conductive to preserving DNA... Or anything more complex than a carbon atom, really...
[edit on 16-12-2009 by TheWalkingFox]