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

2008_09_hijackers.jpgToday'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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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • interlard

    Oh great another reason to get people pissed off all over again. OMG imagine how awful it would be if they were given to whichever family member wanted them and buried/cremated/flushed down the toilet according to their wishes. We need to exact some porkchop-related revenge on these fragments of bodies to make up for the 2 thousand people who were murdered on 9/11 because 100,000 people dead in the wrong country isn't enough for us. Can we just shoot our neighbors kids, too? C'mon, we're all really angry and need an outlet. Pissing on cats and swearing at the moon isn't satisfying enough.



    What a bunch of children. Enough with finding excuses. Get a f*cking grip and start acting normally already.

  • Wza

    Fuck em...throw them out with the rest of the garbage.

  • tackledspoon

    Contact their families and, if no response is received, quietly dispose of their bodies in a way that is consistent with the dictates of the Qu'uran.

  • gimme

    slip the remains into the food at the white house kitchen



    where is osama eh?

  • ides_of_march

    How do the Marines plan on digging a new latrine?

  • colonelcasey

    It's US property now so they don't have to be returned.



    Just cremate them and put them in Yucca Mountain with a bunch of nuclear waste so they can glow in the dark for the next few millennia.

  • ides_of_march

    Shove pork chops up their asses, wrap them up in bacon shrouds and drop them on Mecca from a B-1 bomber.

  • Pull My Finger

    Flush them down the fucking toilet. Whats the problem?

  • ides_of_march

    Bury them in the nearest pig farm.

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