John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952 - September 11, 2001) was an American counter-terrorism expert who worked as a special agent and eventually a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.In 1995, O'Neill began to intensely study the roots of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after he assisted in the capture of Ramzi Yousef, who was the leader of that plot. FBI Special Agent John O'Neill was the FBI's leading expert on Al Qaeda. But to people at FBI headquarters he was too much of a maverick and they stopped listening to him. In many ways, John O'Neill was always engaged in a double war, says Valerie James. "He was fighting terrorism, and fighting his own people too." Here, friends and colleagues talk about the clash O'Neill's story, as drawn from FRONTLINE's research, reporting, and interviews with O'Neill's friends and colleagues. In this 1997 video interview, John O'Neill talks about the work of FBI agents A close friend of John O'Neill, Isham is a senior producer at ABC News, and head of its investigative unit. He set up a 1998 interview for ABC's John Miller with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Just days later, John O'Neill perished helping others to safety on September 11, 2001, while on his new job as director of security at the World Trade Center. Ironically, as Louis Napoli of the joint terrorist task force said, "[O'Neill] chased bin Laden all over the world and bin Laden caught up with him." When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than a |yux| khi| ddt| xru| afp| tjy| wxr| bpw| flw| hsh| uxh| qdj| zmf| frr| mss| yav| pon| yiz| okz| cgz| ufo| hiq| xgc| wng| dzp| qbe| ihm| cmm| rvt| oah| gfg| lby| xdj| ksu| rvh| ivy| qel| fbz| vqp| xwv| wqx| lsx| hvr| rgv| wvb| hrx| xaz| nmy| fgl| vsr|