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NYPD analysis opposed WTC
command center site
Reuters
Saturday January 26, 2008
A detailed 1998 New York Police Department analysis
opposed the city's plans to locate its emergency command center
at the World Trade Center but then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration
overrode the objections, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
"Seven World Trade Center is a poor choice for the site
of a crucial command center for the top leadership of the City
of New York," the Times quoted a panel of police experts
aided by the Secret Service as having concluded in a confidential
Police Department memorandum which has not been previously disclosed.
The longest of the analysis' nine sections, headed "Explosives,"
describes a blast analysis of the likely impact of various types
of bombs, and concluded that the largest of truck bombs would
have led to the building's collapse, the Times report said.
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The command center was destroyed during the September 11, 2001,
attacks on the World Trade Center that also destroyed the twin
towers in the seven-building complex.
Among the location's vulnerabilities was its history as a target,
the report said. One of the World Trade Center's twin towers was
attacked by truck bomb in 1993 that killed 6 people and injured
more than 1,000.
Giuliani, currently campaigning in Florida for the Republican
presidential nomination, has acknowledged some skepticism by the
police about the choice, but characterized it as a dispute between
government officials and departments, the Times said.
"This group's finding is that the security of the proposed
O.E.M. Command Center cannot be reasonably guaranteed," the
July 1998 memo to the city's police commissioner concluded.
The Times said it obtained the document from a law enforcement
official who it noted was not affiliated with any rival political
campaign.
The memorandum was provided to The New York Times by a law enforcement
official not affiliated with a rival political campaign.
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