Reply #50: Mohammed Atta's passport (and more)

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I found a bunch of things on Kerik, mostly through Google Groups, and posted them at a thread that didn't go anywhere. Here's the high points:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+arabia+%22Bernard+Kerik+%22&hl=en&lr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=2&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=2004&selm=akqrne%24diq%241%40pencil.math.missouri.edu&rnum=10

Never mind Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik who was handed Atta's passport by someone not named yet, of which Kerik stated "Apparently, it must have fallen into the air just as the crash occurred, surviving the almost 1000 degree heat of the fire, then came across a strong wind to blow it several blocks away."


http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+arabia+%22Bernard+Kerik+%22&hl=en&lr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=2&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=2004&selm=kMXPa.15014%24zE.9419%40fe1.columbus.rr.com&rnum=4

Senior police advisers have told the UK government that the law enforcement operation in Iraq is at risk of disintegration unless US forces stop "kicking ass" and take a more conciliatory attitude towards civilians.

Some UK officials are appalled by the language and tactics used by Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner, dubbed the "Baghdad terminator" by local journalists because of his uncompromising style.

"The Americans need to learn that civil policing is not about 'kicking ass', it is about democracy. There are going to be problems if we continue with our different philosophies and different approaches to law enforcement," one UK official said.


http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+arabia+%22Bernard+Kerik+%22&start=20&hl=en&lr=&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=5&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=2&as_maxm=8&as_maxy=2004&selm=ec0895b2.0405192053.5efb09ff%40posting.google.com&rnum=22

The former police and fire chiefs who were lionised after the World Trade Center attack came under harsh criticism Tue from the Sept. 11 commission, with one member saying the depts' lack of cooperation was scandalous and "not worthy of the Boy Scouts." Commission members, in NY for an emotional 2-day hearing, focused on how leaders of the 2 depts failed to share info effectively in the early frantic moments after 2 hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade Center.

Former fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen and former police chief Bernard Kerik shot back with infuriated responses to commissioner John Lehman's questions, the strongest of a series of pointed statements from the panel.

"I couldn't disagree with you more strongly," Von Essen replied. "I think it's outrageous that you make a statement like that." Outside the hearing, he called the questioning "despicable."

Families of Sept. 11 victims applauded the tough questioning and shook their heads sadly as the panel enumerated a litany of communication breakdowns between the depts. Family members sporadically mocked and booed Von Essen, Kerik and Richard Sheirer, former Office of Emergency Management commissioner, and they wept earlier in the day as they watched videotape of the buildings collapsing.


He Molests the Dead by Jimmy Breslin
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0307-05.htm

Giuliani then showed appropriate behavior by walking in a parade on Fifth Avenue with his girl friend and all the while his children could sit and watch him on television.

How marvelous! It was appropriate to humiliate his children, and now it is appropriate to molest the dead.

Giuliani also had a flunkey, Bernard Kerik, rush on television and say, so earnestly, that the Bush commerical was appropriate. Kerik was a Giuliani campaign chauffeur who became police commissioner. How marvelous! At the world trade center, Kerik was in the back of his car dictating the last part of a book that was going to appear under his name. It had him writhing with delicious excitement. It was about his mother being a prostitute.

"That's what's going to make me all the money," he told a friend of mine.