Posted on 09/11/2009 8:32:47 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
O’Neill retired as the FBI’s top terrorist expert. He worked for the FBI for 31 years. The FBI appointed him as the chief of the bureau’s International Terrorism Operations.
During his time with the FBI, O’Neill worked on many of the world’s deadliest terrorist attacks, including the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Africa.
O’Neill’s first terrorism case was, in fact, the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center.
After retiring from the FBI, O’Neill took a new job. That job was the security director for the World Trade Center.
O’Neill started at the World Trade Center on Monday, Sept. 10.
He died on the now infamous day of Tuesday, Sept. 11.
According to media reports, John P. O’Neill was in his 34th-floor office at One World Trade Center when the first hijacked plane crashed into the upper floors of the tower.
Within minutes, O’Neill was safely outside the building. He was able to call his son from his cellular phone.
O’Neill also called the FBI headquarters before re-entering one of the World Trade Center towers to assist in the evacuation. He was inside the building when it collapsed.
The body of O’Neill, 50, was pulled from the debris of the collapsed World Trade Center.
O’Neill sounded the alarm on terrorism for many years. A 1996 article, published in the Van Impe Intelligence Briefing, quoted him as saying, “A lot of these groups now have the capability and the support infrastructure in the United States to attack us here if they choose to do so.”
It is a tragic irony that our top terrorism authority died in the world’s deadliest terrorist attack.
We salute and thank you, John, for your wisdom, insight, and patriotism in our war against terrorism.
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and Klinton did nothing about it.
There is much more about this agent in the book, The Looming Tower.
Thanks
I’ll have to read it.
RIP all victims.
Anyone have the "I'll Take It From Here" sketch?
Also remember Rick Rescorla, Another security officer who anticipated the attacks and died saving others that day. RIP
I’ve not seen that before. Awesome. :)
******** Rick Rescorla... As head of security for Morgan Stanley, he had been preparing to avert a terrorist disaster in the World Trade Center for ten years.
“The Looming Tower”. A really good book.
THE RICK RESCORLA MEMORIAL WEBPAGE
A piece of steel from the World Trade Center is being dedicated to the men and women of the United States Army, who have lost their lives since the attacks on September 11 2001, and to the soldiers who continue to serve.
It’s final resting place will be next to the statue of Col Rick Rescorla, at the National Infantry Museum, Fort Benning, Georgia.
500 motorcyclists will escort this steel from NYC to Ft. Benning beginning September 12, 2009.
Movie Review: Who Killed John O’Neill
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/36902/movie_review_who_killed_john_oneill.html?cat=37
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I haven’t seen this movie, and I’m just wondering if anyone has seen it.
Though O’Neill was quite the philanderer, I think God is gracious, and that there was a net credit to his moral bank account.
I think so too...
I love that picture.
You’re very welcome...
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