Keith W wrote:
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True but a tooth is essentially a sealed ceramic capsule.
Its a matter of record that DNA has been retrieved from
victims who's bodies were reduced to charcoal in a fire.

Understood.


Besides, separating bone fragments and teeth from pulverized plaster
and cement, while no doubt doable, could not have been thoroughly
done within the amount of time during which the debris was removed
and disposed of.


Well no, it was done while the wreckage was being sorted and
sifted off site and they had several months to do this.

It took several months just to clear the materials from the site.

Given that identifiable remains were found for less than half
of the victims I tend to think the examination was not that
thorough.


Again they recovered considerable such samples
from the Oceanic crashes of TWA-800 and SwissAir 111
so recovery from the WTC is quite believable.


Oh, I agree that it is quite believable. In fact, I am surprised that
so many of the victims had no remains recovered. The only
viable explanation is that a lot of human remains were left
unseparrated from the rubble. One would expect that most
of the bodies of the victims killed in the collapse would have
still been largely in one piece when the dust settled, leaving
concentrated pockets of remains to be exhumed later.

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