Outgoing New York Mayor Mr Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview broadcast today he expects another attack on the city after the September 11th suicide hijackings which killed 3,100 people at the World Trade Centre.
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Mr Rudolph Giuliani
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"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", Mr Giuliani said.
"So after the attack, we...continue to try to anticipate new things", he told BBC's Breakfast with Frostprogramme.
The interview was recorded before flight attendants and passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight overpowered a man yesterday who appeared to be trying to blow up a plane with explosives packed in his shoes.
After two terms at the helm in New York, Mr Giuliani steps down on December 31st, when billionaire Mayor-elect Mr Michael Bloomberg takes over.
Mr Giuliani said 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.
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"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. "Maybe some people just don't know it yet. It's better because spiritually it's a stronger place. And people know it better and respect it more", Mr Giuliani said.