Fred Ghussin

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Age:
58
Place of Residence:
Manhattan, New York
Fred Ghussin
Occupation:
New York County District Attorney's Office | Senior Investigator
Reflections:

Ghussin Police Memorial

Biography:

Fred Ghussin was US citizen who was Syrian-born and fluent in Arabic and Hebrew. He had been a member of the Israeli National Police and began working as an investigator with the district attorney's office in 1990.

Fred was one of the first local law enforcement officers in this State to work high level terrorist cases. On 9/11 he was working with the FBI joint terrorist task force and responded to the World Trade center. He was diagnosed with lung cancer three years later and passed from the illness on 6-22-07.