Bernie Kerik Won't Fold ( He thinks he's Chalabi, I guess)

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http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/finance/Bernie_Kerik_Wont_Fold.shtml
The onetime hero of September 11 tries to prove there are second acts in American life
By: Joseph Braude, Photographs: Dana Lixenberg
Jun 20, 2007 - 3:06:56 AM

Bernard Kerik's fall from grace is one of the most astonishing political tales of the age of terrorism

The Pit

It is called Al-Hafr—the Dig—this giant pit that stretches a quarter mile across and seven stories deep into the reddish Arabian soil. A steep, jagged road cut into the side of the crater provides access for a procession of trucks and turbaned laborers who work long hours seven days a week to deepen and enlarge the hole. I am here on a pleasant, wind-whipped March afternoon in the desert kingdom of Jordan with Bernard Kerik—former police commissioner of the City of New York, President George W. Bush’s onetime nominee for homeland security chief, a Rudy Giuliani confidant, and a true hero of September 11, whose fall from grace is one of the most astonishing political tales of the age of terrorism.

“I’m pouring my heart and soul into this,” Kerik shouts over the roar of the construction. “Everything I got.” Al-Hafr, I’ve already learned, is the first stage in the construction of a high-security crisis-management headquarters commissioned by Jordan’s royal family. As integral as this project is to the future of the Hashemite Kingdom, it is equally important to Kerik, who sees it as the centerpiece of his comeback.

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