9/11 Commission Comes to New York

[Zomby Woof]

May 18, 7:31 AM (ET)

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN

NEW YORK (AP) - After months of focusing on federal failures, the commission probing the Sept. 11 attacks is looking at whether local missteps led to deaths that might have been avoided at the World Trade Center.

An increasingly vocal group of firefighters, relatives of the dead and other New Yorkers has been demanding a probe of the city's emergency response that would assign responsibility for systemic flaws.

"There are questions that have to be answered," said Bill Doyle, who lost his son in the trade center attack. "We can't bring our loved ones back, but we can have peace of mind that someone's being held accountable."

They may be disappointed when the commission investigating the attacks meets Tuesday in a university auditorium in Greenwich Village.

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