December 24, 2001	Monday	Shawwal 8, 1422

LONDON, Dec 23: Outgoing New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview broadcast on Sunday he expects another attack on the city.

“I anticipate another attack and try as much as I can to figure out what it will be — where it will be, are we prepared for it, are we doing all the things that we can do to prepare for it,” Giuliani said.

“So after the attack, we ... continue to try to anticipate new things,” he told BBC Television.

The interview was recorded before flight attendants and passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight overpowered a man on Saturday who appeared to be trying to blow up a plane with explosives packed in his shoes.

In another interview broadcast on Sunday but taped last week, Giuliani said Osama bin Laden had to be found as quickly as possible.

“I think there’s no question that no one person is ever responsible for evil like this,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But he said Osama’s charisma and “leadership ability” put him in a special class. “And I think the sooner and the faster we find him the safer the world’s going to be.”

After two terms at the helm in New York, Giuliani steps down on Dec 31, when billionaire Mayor-elect Michael Bloomberg takes over. Giuliani was named on Sunday as Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

Giuliani told the BBC the exact number of people who died in the September attacks would never be known.

“Right now, the best number that we have in terms of missing and dead, confirmed dead, is about 3,100,” he said.

“Are there more people that we don’t have records of? Yeah sure, there has to be. With numbers that large.” But he said New York had already bounced back.—Reuters