9/11 Survivors who Battled Life-Threatening Illnesses rip terrorists’ plea agreement: ‘Deal with the devil’
Survivors of 9/11 who battled cancer and other life-threatening illnesses in the years since the attacks were devastated and enraged to learn that the terror plot’s mastermind and two co-conspirators
will escape the death penalty.
Several victims, whose ailments were brought on by toxic debris from the felled Twin Towers, on Thursday slammed the plea deals that US military prosecutors struck with three accused terrorists held on Guantánamo Bay, including primary plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
“I’m disgusted. He killed 3,000 people and more than 3,000 if you consider all of the people who have been dying since he caused all of this pain and suffering,” Steven Hanges, a retired 20-year veteran of the NY Highway Patrol, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer late last year.
Richie Alles, 67, a retired Deputy FDNY Chief who was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Hanges, who began developing pulmonary symptoms in the weeks after 9/11 and has suffered from rhinitis, sinusitis and obstructive sleep apnea in the years since, has had his tumor removed and is doing well. But the news of the plea deals brought the emotional pain right back.
Survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks, many of whom battled cancer and other life-threatening illnesses brought on by the toxic debris the Twin Towers left behind, were devastated and enraged to learn …
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