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Newly Released Records Show Officials Lied About Air Toxins Following 9/11 (truthout.org)
submitted 2 months ago by [B] to c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
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Ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unsealed more than 170,000 pages of records that offer new insights into how the city responded to the disaster. Some of the papers indicate that officials lied about the hazardous toxins that burned and remained near ground zero for months afterward, even as the government assured New Yorkers the air…

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago

I thought it was widely known already that the area around the twin towers were absolutely toxic. The twin towers contained a lot of asbestos and that has been known long before 9/11 to be very bad for our health.

Anyway, it's good to see that Mamdani is making these papers public.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    This is the first headline I’ve seen on this that says “lied” instead of “mislead” and I appreciate that

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