According to a report in Lebanon's Al-Safir newspaper, he was in Syria to study reconstruction plans for the northern city of Aleppo.
One problem, admits Mr Safir, is that New York's precinct community councils do not include a broad enough range of minority opinions.
Launching a Safir-2 rocket looks very much like putting up a finger.
Then the police commissioner, Howard Safir, announced reforms to the Street Crime Unit, of which the four officers in the Diallo shooting were part.
Jan Roels, a Euro-expert at Arthur Andersen, draws attention to a recent judgment of the European Court of Justice in the case of Jessica Safir.
Mr Safir denies this, pointing out that a disproportionate number of people accused of crimes come from ethnic minorities, which is why more of those minorities get stopped.
Last Thursday, an interview appeared in the Lebanese newspaper, as-Safir, in which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said it was a possibility that Syria would be next on Washington's list.
Certainly Mr Safir, who shares his political master's tendency to attack his critics rather than conciliate, thinks the current carping has been whipped up by Mr Giuliani's Democratic opponents.
Mr Safir laughs when asked if Mrs Clinton has visited him to discuss police matters, but says he'd be happy to meet her in the unlikely event she wanted to.
The Safir-2 has an estimated range of 2, 000-3, 000 kilometers.
Mandell also had these other august personages on his boards and as advisors at firms he owned and controlled: Former House Majority leader Richard K. Armey, L. Paul Bremer, Matthew Carrington, a former member of British Parliament, former New York City Police Chief Howard Safir, and Ex-CIA director Stansfield Turner.
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