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Firefighters Target Giuliani on 9/11 Leadership
In a video being released Wednesday, New York City firefighters and their families criticize former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks. Many firefighters have a history of animosity toward Giuliani, now a leading Republican presidential candidate. They argue that Giuliani's administration failed to provide adequate radios for first responders at the World Trade Center. And they remain angry at his decision to speed removal of the enormous pile of rubble at Ground Zero, cutting back the size of the group searching for remains. "He's not a leader. He is running on 9/11, and it's all a fallacy," Jim Riches, the father of a Sept. 11 victim and a deputy New York fire chief, says in the video.
Story Continues Below The International Association of Fire Fighters produced the 13-minute video and is distributing it to its 280,000 members, to the media and online. Giuliani's campaign responded that the union leaders don't speak for rank-and-file. Late Tuesday, the campaign sent out a three-page summary of Giuliani's history of supporting firefighters. "Firefighters across the country have no greater friend than Rudy Giuliani," said Howard Safir, who served as fire commissioner and later police commissioner under Giuliani.
"Those of us who have worked with Rudy Giuliani know he has always been a constant supporter of firefighters and first responders," Safir said in a statement issued by the campaign.
© 2007 Associated Press.
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