Daniel Bowen just sent me a link to this site:
THE COMPLETE 9/11 TIMELINE, PART 2: Jan. 2001 - Sept. 11, 2001
Among other things, it details some of the story of John O’Neill. I’d read this before, but it’s worth telling it again in case you’ve either never heard it or had forgotten it.
O’Neill was a counter-terrorism expert working for the FBI. He was working primarily on the Bin Laden case starting from the original WTC bombings in 1993. Early in 2001, he started to feel that there was…
…White House obstruction in his bin Laden investigation. O'Neill says:"The main obstacles to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests and the role played by Saudi Arabia in it." He adds:"All the answers, everything needed to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organization, can be found in Saudi Arabia." O'Neill also believes the White House is obstructing his investigation of bin Laden because they are still keeping the idea of a pipeline deal with the Taliban open.
After months of friction between O’Neill and the FBI, he quits and then…
August 23, 2001 : John O'Neill begins his new job as head of security at the WTC. [New Yorker, 1/14/02] A friend says to him, "Well, that will be an easy job. They're not going to bomb that place again." O'Neill replies, "Well actually they've always wanted to finish that job. I think they're going to try again." On September 10 he moves into his new office on the 34th floor of the North Tower. That night, he tells colleague Jerry Hauer, "We're due for something big. I don't like the way things are lining up in Afghanistan" (a probable reference to the assassination of Afghan leader Ahmed Shah Massoud the day before (see September 9, 2001)). O'Neill is killed the next day in the 9/11 attack. [PBS Frontline, 10/3/02]
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