Re: The Looming Tower - BBC2 Archived Message Posted by margo on April 23, 2019, 1:27 pm, in reply to "The Looming Tower - BBC2" The CIA withholds intel on an al-Qaeda plot, so FBI man John O’Neill hopes young Muslim agent Ali Soufan can help, while old hand Bob Chesney follows an unlikely lead in Kenya, on the eve of a major atrocity. I wonder if this BBC doccie goes into the fact that John O'Neill was a top investigator who knew a huge amount about AlQaeda and its cells and would have been well placed to head an investigation into the 2001 AlQaeda attacks on the US. Unfortunately, he was moved out of the FBI and offered a great job at the World Trade Centre a couple of weeks before it was pulverised. Previous Message From Wikipedia: . Died: September 11, 2001 (aged 49) Cause of deathCollapse of the World Trade Centre Occupation FBI special agent, World Trade Center security head 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. He subsequently learned of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, and investigated the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia and the 2000 USS Cole bombing in Yemen. Partly due to personal friction he had within the FBI and federal government, O'Neill was pushed out of the Bureau in 2001. He became head of security at the World Trade Center [on 23 August 2001], where he died less than three weeks later on September 11, 2001, during the attacks. Message Thread: The Looming Tower - BBC2 - S Cook April 23, 2019, 9:21 am Re: The Looming Tower - BBC2 - margo April 23, 2019, 1:27 pm Re: The Looming Tower - BBC2 - margo April 23, 2019, 2:12 pm Good one margo nm - ceemac666 April 23, 2019, 2:58 pm Ta M! Always saves unnecessary effort when some obviously well-informed hatchet man fells yet - Rhisiart Gwilym April 23, 2019, 4:21 pm Re: The Looming Tower - BBC2 - Raskolnikov April 23, 2019, 5:31 pm If it's based on the idea that the official cospithirry is true, then it's shite, by definition. No - Rhisiart Gwilym April 23, 2019, 8:55 pm   Searching