DEADLIEST SHIRT IN THE WORLD

[donsu]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16955598&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=deadliest-shirt-in-the-world--name_page.html


DEADLIEST SHIRT IN THE WORLD
9/11 survivor's toxic clothing sparks cancer fear

THIS deadly 9/11 shirt contains so much asbestos it is feared thousands of the disaster's survivors could be hit with cancer.

The garment worn by survivor Yehuda Kaploun, 39, has 93,000 times higher levels of asbestos than normal - 47 TIMES the safety limit.

It is also saturated with toxic zinc, mercury, antimony, barium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead and molybdenum.

More than a million tonnes of dust containing chemicals and 400,000 tonnes of asbestos choked the skies after New York's World Trade Center was hit by two hijacked planes.

Now there are fears that Yehuda's shirt is grim evidence that rescuers and survivors could face lethal health problems in decades to come.

Yehuda, who spent two days battling to save lives at Ground Zero, said: "I saw thousands of people covered in the dust. We were told there was no danger. Obviously, this isn't the case.

"It goes to show how wrong these people were who we trusted.
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and the EPA knew

[DS1]

1. FEMA said it was safe, and people believed them

What a sign of things to come

[dipsydoodle]

2. To believe anything like that

from a collapsed building of that size you'd also need to believe in the tooth fairy.

[DS1]

3. blame the victim?

[dipsydoodle]

7. No

I didn't mean to convey that. My intention was to convey that they should have received better advice.

[DS1]

10. Fair enough

and there would be those who would have ignored it, still - they were straight-up lied to

[TomInTib]

5. Actually, it was EPA that did the "tests"

They sent Whitman out to talk to the teevee people.

Had to get Wall Street back up and running.

And get all that rubble hauled out of there as quickly as possible.

[DS1]

6. Ah

Well, FEMA were supposedly there the day before, so I don't know why they wouldn't have done the tests, too ;-)

[donsu]

12. that was the important thing - get the evidence of crime out of there

as fast as possible.

[BlackHeart]

9. Why the Hell

would anyone believe FEMA for saying it was safe? Makes no sense to me.
I personally would know that it isn't safe to breathe in all that dust but would have gone about my job anyways because it was the right thing to do.

[DS1]

11. That's not the point

and even if I was wrong it was the EPA who said it was safe, they lied.

[spuddonna]

4. Yes, the EPA knew...

How many thousands of peoples lives were put in danger by our govt? How many people have already died from all the crap they inhaled?

from article: "He said: "It's mind-boggling the poisons they made these people work through. The amount of dioxins made Vietnam look like a kindergarten." "

I hope the lawsuit helps those families. I have a feeling it will be dragged through the courts for a long, long time...

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. It goes to show how wrong these people were who we trusted.

No.

It goes to show how wrong we were to trust these people.