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Former CIA And Mossad
Chiefs To Fight Terror In NY
By DPA
9-5-2

NEW YORK - New York City has called on the former chiefs of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli Mossad to head an anti-terrorism task force within its fire department, which, it says, functioned below par when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center on September 11 last year, news reports said Wednesday.
 
A former head of the CIA, James Woolsey, and Shabtai Shavit, a former Mossad director, would evaluate the fire department's technical capabilities to deal with terrorist threats, including its communications technology, a statement from city government said.
 
The two former spook directors will be assisted by a team of American officials who have worked previously in the fields of health, nuclear physics and fire-fighting.
 
The task force members were chosen by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who earlier announced his intention to revamp the fire department.
 
"Today, the universe of potential dangers and emergencies facing New Yorkers has changed and increased dramatically," said Nicholas Scoppetta, the chief of the fire department, "and so, the department has to change also."
 
Evaluations and studies of the department's performance in the rescue operations on and after the September 11 terrorist attacks showed that the department had been caught unprepared by the magnitude of the events.
 
Its leadership was disorganized and fire-fighters were equipped with outdated radio communication gear, which failed them when the center's Twin Towers collapsed.
 
Fire-fighters made up 343 of the more than 2,800 people who died in the attack on the World Trade Center.
 
 
 
 
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