I'm not too surprised. Whatever the police commissioner might have felt about wanting them jailed, no jury would have convicted and the attempt to take them to court would have been very costly politically.

Now the follow up I'd like to see would be would be for the city to back down on this. And, as Wanderer suggested, declare the place a war grave, so the dead could rest in peace there without another Tower of Babel being erected over their graves.

Having thousands upon thousand crowded on top of each other to work makes no kind of sense anymore anyway, with modern communications. Except to the likes of the terrorists - and of course the people who stand to make a profit from building on what should be a holy place, and pretending it's some kind of act of national defiance.