1.   He fought the Taliban in recent years, but he also had many friends inside the movement, said his cousin, Haji Noor Baig.

2.   He had been suffering from emphysema, said his cousin, Gladys Bourdain.

3.   He had been suffering from cancer of the throat for about a year, said a cousin, Campbell Moses of New York.

4.   He was born in Jamaica, and spent some of his childhood in the Bronx, said his cousin, Diane Brown.

5.   Kevin Viramontes said his cousin and her parents were staying with relatives and did not want to talk.

6.   Lizzi, whose ancestors come from Calabria, Italy, said his cousins and other relatives are all involved in winemaking.

7.   Nonetheless, he helped dozens of people escape from the building, said his cousin Helen Potenzano.

8.   So it was only fitting that he should be mourned there in the end, said his cousin, Joan DeCristofaro.

9.   The cause was heart failure, said his cousin James C. Magill Jr.

10.   The cause was cancer, said his cousin Ray Colon.