The Empire State Building and 2008

Last week was the 10th anniversary of the shooting spree at the Empire State Building that killed one and wounded many. The Daily News printed a story detailing that the family of the Palestinian killer now admitted that he did it because he “wanted to punish the U.S. for supporting Israel.

 http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/498674p-420269c.html

 While the family’s admission was news, the fact that this was terrorist’s motivation wasn’t. Wayne Barrett in the Village Voice (no link found) and Len Levitt, then of Newsday reported about this at the time but also reported about something that is now timely.

http://nypdconfidential.com/columns/1997/970303.html

Rudy Giuliani tried to cover-up the terrorist’s motivation!

That’s right. The man running for President based on the issue of standing up to Islamic terrorists didn’t want New Yorkers to know about a terrorist attack that happened while he was Mayor.

Here is what Levitt wrote

 While the mayor and Safir confided to Jewish groups that the city would beef up security for them because the Palestinian gunman harbored anti-Israel motives, he and Safir told the public another story. On Monday the pliant Safir stood at the mayor's side and served as ventriloquist's dummy, describing Abu Kamal as "distraught over a number of financial reverses in which he felt he had been cheated out of his life savings." The next day he acknowledged this was untrue.

"The mayor made a decision to selectively release issues . . . to maintain calm in the city," as David Pollock, associate executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council put it. A second motive was to score points with Jewish groups like the JCRC, a pillar of Giuliani's electoral support, by secretly informing them of the gunman's true motivation.

 

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