Sept. 11 families want more 911 tapes released

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N31302497.htm

Sept. 11 families want more 911 tapes released


NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - Nine relatives of people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center called on New York on Friday to release the full recordings of about 130 telephone calls made to emergency operators from the twin towers that day.

The city released partial recordings of those calls on Friday, but included only the voices of the 911 operators and fire department dispatchers responding to the pleas for help from those trapped inside the towers.

Recordings of the voices of the callers themselves were not released, although some family members allowed reporters to listen to, and record, some of the calls.

At a news conference on Friday, the family members said the 911 recordings comprised an invaluable historical record of what transpired on Sept. 11 and what went wrong.

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1. I don't believe that hearing only the 911 operators is "releasing"

the tapes. It's non-sense.