There have been some recent articles on the DNA tests to identify the 9/11 victims. This is one of them, although to get something close to the whole story seems to require reading half a dozen articles which appear to be reporting off of the same information source.
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As close as I can tell, there was something like 20,000 samples to be tested. Of those, 10,000 samples positively identified about 1,600 people.
The part that strikes me as odd is of the other 1,100 "known" victims, the other 10,000 samples don't match any of them, or at least that's what the articles seem to claim.
Now I suppose it's possible, even likely, those covering the story aren't very bright, don't understand the information they are reporting on, and just barely comprehend English well enough to have graduated from the third grade. That would at least explain why none of them bothered to ask or answer the obvious question of who all those samples truly belong to.
Were fully half of the samples too badly damaged to make any kind of identification possible? Or was there enough there to identify someone, but those someones were not on the list?
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