FBI had Hi-jackers DNA BEFORE 9/11.... nothing to do with David Blunkett

Who They Were : Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing

Shaler was interviewed by Paul Colford of the NY Daily News. 12/10/05

The NY city scientist (former head of the medical examiner's forensic unit) who led the effort to identify 9/11 victims in his new book said officials made sure to keep the remains of the three terrorists identified away from those of the innocents killed.

The remains of the killers were removed from the medical examiner's makeshift memorial park on the East Side and "put in another place," Robert Shaler, told the Daily News.

In "Who They Were," his inside account from the apex of the identification effort, Shaler writes that he believes the terrorists identified were in the back of the planes - and not the monsters who plowed the jets into the towers. "I still doubt the pilots have anything remaining to collect or analyze," he writes. "Likely, they were vaporized along with many of the innocent victims."

Shaler details the scientific challenge and personal anguish that marked the more than three years it took to process the bodies and 20,000 body parts (ugh!) recovered from Ground Zero.

Though the remains of 1,594 of the 2,749 WTC victims have so far been identified by name, Shaler makes it very clear the terrorists were a case apart.

For a start , Shaler reveals his office office could not identify the three by name. That's because the 10 DNA profiles used to make the first matches were supplied by the FBI without names attached.

"No names, just a K code, which is how the FBI designates 'knowns,' or specimens it knows the origins of," Shaler wrote. "Of course, we had no direct knowledge of how the FBI obtained the terrorists' DNA."

Seperated from other remains to allay families' concern that the killers might someday be commingled with the unidentified remnants of their victims, due to rest at the Trade Center site. Shaler said he didn't know where the terrorists' remains are now but assumed they are kept somewhere in the city.

"We didn't say where we put the terrorists' remains because it's not important," the medical examiner's spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove, said yesterday, adding she did not know the location herself.

* [Note: If this is indeed true, it is highly suspect, leading some to believe that this information came from a military database. Keep in mind that according to NBC, Many of the alleged hi-jackers trained at secure US military sites. If it is false, then whoever is lying has some explaining to do.]

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