9/11 Claims Another Officer's Life (toxic air)...

[Peter Frank]

NYPD Detective James Zadroga holds his daughter, Tylerann.

<snip>Zadroga spent 470 hours sifting through the smoldering ruins.

Inhale, exhale.

Twelve-hour shifts, nearly 40 of them.

Inhale, exhale.

More than 28,000 minutes, his only protection a thin, paper mask.

Zadroga barely avoided death when 7 World Trade Center tumbled down around him hours after the planes hit. The escape was temporary: By the time he was finished at ground zero, Zadroga was as much a Sept. 11 victim as anyone lost in the tower stairwells -- though his suffering was time-released.

His breathing became labored within weeks, his health deteriorated over months, he was on disability in just over three years. Last month, the 34-year-old Zadroga finally succumbed, betrayed by his failing body.

The World Trade Center had claimed its latest fatality.<snip>

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/399425.html

[varkam]

1. What really pisses me off is...

that our government has largely forgotten about the men and women who gave (and continue to do so) their lives pulling people out of the fire and the stone and the metal. They did things that I believe make them heroes, whereas they saw it as their duty. And we still haven't gotten around to giving them the money and the medical treatment they deserve.

Land of the free.
Home of the brave.

[w13rd0]

2. Why would Bush bother?

New York is blue in Presidential races. He'd sooner blow up New York city himself. Hell, in most polling, 80+% of New Yorkers believe Bush knew about 9-11 before it happened, and did nothing to stop it.

[Peter Frank]

3. Agreed - But It's Even Far More Sinister Than That...

The EPA gave the green light for local folks to clean up ground zero, knowingly and falsly stating that the air was "safe".

EPA Misled Public on 9/11 Pollution
White House ordered false assurances on air quality

NEW YORK -- In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to give the public misleading information, telling New Yorkers it was safe to breathe when reliable information on air quality was not available.

That finding is included in a report released Friday by the Office of the Inspector General of the EPA. It noted that some of the agency's news releases in the weeks after the attack were softened before being released to the public: Reassuring information was added, while cautionary information was deleted.

"When the EPA made a September 18 announcement that the air was 'safe' to breathe, it did not have sufficient data and analyses to make such a blanket statement," the report says. "Furthermore, the White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced . . . the information that EPA communicated to the public through its early press releases when it convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones."<snip>

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0823-03.htm

[Peter Frank]

4. Wake up folks...

This is the tip of the coverup iceberg.

[Moderator]

5. Not Latest Breaking News

Despite the date on the article, this happened Jan 7th.
There have been several discussions on DU about this case including this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2046987