No One Knows What to Do With 9/11 Hijacker Remains

Today's NY Times reveals that the remains of 13 of the 19 men responsible for the 9/11 attacks wait in a state of limbo as they're stored in unknown locations under the watch of the F.B.I. and the New York City medical examiner’s office. Neither has a policy on how to deal with a request to bury them, leaving the potential for a sticky situation if one was made. The only such request that has come in was from an alleged uncle of one of the hijackers on Flight 93, but apparently it was made at the prompting of an overseas journalist trying to test out the system and was never followed up on. Families of 9/11 victims are watching the situation closely with one father of a World Trade Center victim telling the Times, “It would be sadly ironic if they ended up being properly buried or sent to a Muslim country when many of the remains of the victims remain buried in a garbage dump.”

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By Billy Parker in News on September 21, 2008 11:57 AM

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NannyState

^ Maybe, but I think Adolf Hitler's family would object.

Barbj8

Cremate them and spread the ashes over Disneyland.

rdc

Bury them with some pig carcasses and call it a day.

thelexiphane

Ten years for a victims' memorial unbuilt. Now we're debating what to do with the murderers? How about a Duchamp-ian-like urinal installation so everyone could piss on these f'ers remains. Dream up the most religiously offensive act, and then figure out how to reenact it over and over, in perpetuity.

tingo

I think the overall consensus is that they're shit on, burnt, and shit on again. Then we can send them wherever they wanted to go.

takethecanoli

@23

Wrong country. They were almost all Saudi.

Feed them to pigs, then put the pig shit in bombs and drop those...on the Saudis.

ed_Extinct

load the remains in the bombs we're dropping in the mountains of afghanistan. send em home!

everyAframe

Litterbox for dog and cats to piss in at memorial for victims.

AHT

#10, excellent suggestion. What better precedent could be provided than Eichmann? I would only hope it's done quietly. For their deeds, they deserve only to be forgotten.

thefacts

I'll take them.

NannyState

Any burial location will become a martyr's shrine so when Yucca Mountain opens for our high-level nuclear waste, put that trash in a container of spent rods and bury it deep in the mountain. Let the future Bin Ladens dare to pay their respects there.

Steven

Cremate the bodies and throw the ashes in the garbage.

Blairy Blair

HA! Or this:

'slip the remains into the food at the white house kitchen'

Blairy Blair

You people are midievil.

They're dead. I think that's all the punishment they need. They're just men, just like us, who were talked into doing something very, very stupid.

contro

put em on a remote control plane and have them hit a building in their home country. Fer the LULZ!

rasputinsghost

Let's ask the Japanese, they do a pretty good job of memorializing blood-thirsty monsters

blablanyc

Put them on display somewhere so that we can spit and piss on them.

babyhitler

I will be willing to volunteer and do my part as a US citizen to take a huge piss on all the body parts. then top it off with piles of steaming dog turd. Then put it all in a capsule sent to Al Qaeda C/O Bin Laden.

ides_of_march

Let the FDNY decide the issue.

jchez

The pig farm idea may not accepted but certainly cremation and burial at sea should be. The Israelis did that to Eichmann specifically to prevent him and his family from having a respectable burial site.