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/attacks_the_toll_5 WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Official WTC Death Toll Near 2,800 Fri Feb 8, 5:50 PM ET By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The city's official count of those killed at the World Trade Center is leveling off at around 2,800 after months of work by investigators to find errors and duplicated names in the lists of the missing. Photos AP Photo The number, which once topped 6,700, has hovered just above 2,800 for more than a month now, and stood at 2,843 as of Friday. The toll is likely to drop slightly as investigators make changes. The meticulous work by the police department and mayor's office to shrink the list name by name, misspelling by misspelling, cannot be compared to any previous missing-persons investigation, experts said. Chris Foster, a liaison with the mayor's office, said he spent "many sleepless nights" tracking down people reported missing by foreign consulates. He said he has 28 names left to investigate, down from 1,900. The current total includes 712 people whose remains have been identified by the medical examiner, and 1,932 people whose families have requested court-issued death certificates because other evidence proved they were in the towers. Seven foreign countries still need to confirm their missing-persons lists, which could cause the death toll to drop. The medical examiner's office is trying to identify the dead by matching more than 14,000 body parts to DNA samples provided by the victims' families. Weeding out those who were wrongly reported missing has been a slow task. Some of those who made missing-person reports did not call back to say they were mistaken, meaning police had to verify the claim. "In some cases they've called back and said, `Wait, somebody said I was missing?'" Foster said. "I've found people who said, `What do you mean? I've never even been to New York.'" Sometimes police discover someone is alive as they try to locate dental records to help identify remains. The city's figure is now close to a continuing Associated Press tally of casualties at the trade center. The AP number stood at 2,799 on Friday, a figure that includes passengers and crew aboard the two airplanes, but not the hijackers. The AP figure is derived from information provided by the medical examiner, courts, funeral homes, places of worship, death notices, employers, public agencies, families and AP's foreign bureaus. The AP's overall death toll for the Sept. 11 attacks — including 184 at the Pentagon (news - web sites) and 40 in Pennsylvania — stood at 3,023. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
