THE COUNTER-TERRORIST by LAWRENCE WRIGHT John O'Neill was an F.B.I. agent with an obsession: the growing threat of Al Qaeda. Issue of 2002-01-14 Posted 2002-01-14 The legend of John P. O'Neill, who lost his life at the World Trade Center on September 11th, begins with a story by Richard A. Clarke, the national coördinator for counter-terrorism in the White House from the first Bush Administration until last year. On a Sunday morning in February, 1995, Clarke went to his office to review intelligence cables that had come in over the weekend. One of the cables reported that Ramzi Yousef, the...