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They came over from Jersey 19 years ago in a yellow Ryder van that had a bomb in it, some of them from a walk-in mosque over a store on Kennedy Blvd. in Jersey City, and parked in a garage underneath the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and that is the first time radical Islamists tried to blow up lower Manhattan.
It was the first time Ray Kelly was serving his city as Police Commissioner, and that night he was in the North Tower with a Port Authority engineer, after a day when only six were killed at the World Trade Center instead of thousands.
"Don't worry," Kelly remembers the engineer telling him, "these buildings will never come down."