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The 9/11 Cover-Up« Thread Started on Sept 13, 2007, 9:33am »

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The 9/11 Cover-Up« Thread Started on Sept 13, 2007, 9:33am »

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The 9/11 Cover-Up« Thread Started on Sept 13, 2007, 9:33am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------The 9/11 Cover-UpThousands of New Yorkers were endangered by WTC debris—and government malfeasance. by Michael Masonread at source> http://discovermagazine.com/2007/oct/th ... ver-upThis article is part of Discover's package on the health effects of 9/11 air pollution on the people in New York City. In the aftermath of the first explosion, the air over Lower Manhattan transformed instantly.“The sky was glittering with glass,” says Nina L., a Tribeca resident who asked not to be further identified. She ran to her window and saw a shower of flaming jet fuel cascading from one of the towers.“This can’t be a good thing to have my windows open,” she immediately thought to herself.Nina closed her windows and shut her air conditioner flues. As a former jeweler, she’d worked around dangerous chemicals before and understood the hazards of toxic fumes. From her apartment seven blocks north of the World Trade Center, she sat transfixed until a second explosion jolted her into action.Nina tore up an old pillowcase, fashioned a makeshift bandanna over her face, packed her cats into cages, and trekked northward.“The whole neighborhood was blanketed in a gray snow,” she recalls. “Some people were walking by in moon suits.”Although Nina could not have known it at the time, she had just entered one of the most dangerous atmospheric conditions ever to occur on American soil, and she suffers the consequences. She had chronic bronchitis until 2003 and still has esophagitis and sinusitis. Many health professionals believe others like her won’t experience the harsher, suffocating symptoms for several more years.Up to 70 percent of first responders are ill as a result of 9/11 contamination. If a similar rate of illness holds true for those who lived and worked near the Twin Towers, the number of seriously ill New Yorkers could climb to 300,000 in the near future. About 70,000 New Yorkers so far have listed themselves with the World Trade Center Health Registry, a database that tracks the health impact of the 9/11 attacks. The registry has been criticized for excluding large numbers of those potentially sickened outside a designated one-square-mile area. Despite the insistent denials of city and federal officials, tens of thousands of New Yorkers were unnecessarily exposed to a chemical brew without even the most rudimentary precautions. Today New York City is still mired in a fog of cover-ups and half-truths regarding its environmental welfare.
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