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Article: Bush picks Kerik for homeland security job
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- December 4, 2004
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WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush has picked as his homeland
security secretary former New York City police commissioner Bernard
Kerik, who helped the city respond to the September 11, 2001, attacks
and trained Iraqi police, administration officials said.
The officials said on Thursday Bush chose Kerik to replace Tom
Ridge, who announced his resignation on Tuesday, to lead US efforts
to protect the country from September 11-type attacks. Kerik, 49,
rushed to the site of the World Trade Centre towers moments after the
September 11 attack and helped then-New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
during the September 11 crisis, to co-ordinate rescue efforts,