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The Man Who Warned America: The Life and Death of John O'Neill, the FBI's Embattled Counterterror Warrior
by Murray Weiss
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ISBN: 0060508221 Subtitle: The Life and Death of John O'Neill, the FBI's Embattled Counterterror Warrior Publisher: ReganBooks Copyright: 2003 Subject: General Subject: Terrorism Subject: United states Subject: Public Affairs & Administration Subject: Political Subject: Historical - U.S. Edition Number: 1st Publication Date: August 14, 2003 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Illustrations: Y Pages: 464 Dimensions: 942x630x147 174
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As a teenager in Atlantic City in the 1960s, John O'Neill dreamed of becoming an FBI agent. Over the next four decades, his charisma, talent, and dedication catapulted him to the top echelons of the FBI in its fight against terrorism and drew him into a world of glamour, intrigue, and power.
Driven by an all-consuming desire to protect Americans, O'Neill rose through the FBI's ranks and played important roles in every major terrorism investigation of the 1990s, including the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, and the USS Cole in Yemen; the twin embassy attacks in Africa; and the capture of Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. O'Neill's larger-than-life personality, hard-charging style, and insistent warnings against complacency won him both fervent admirers and bitter enemies among government officials and his crime-fighting colleagues.
In 1995, O'Neill became the first agent to recognize Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network as the single greatest terrorist threat to America. He campaigned relentlessly for increased cooperation between the CIA, the FBI, and U.S. and foreign governments, and made decisions that would change the face of counterterrorism. O'Neill won the respect of many powerful figures around the world and earned a legendary reputation as a bon vivant, an innovative leader, and a bridge builder of important alliances. But O'Neill's confident, charming public persona belied several professional disappointments and the growing strain of secretly maintaining a complex web of romantic relationships. When the FBI and the U.S. government continued to disregard his calls to connect the terror trail to bin Laden and his associates, O'Neill became even more disillusioned and ultimately resigned his post at the FBI. 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." In The Man Who Warned America, Murray Weiss weaves groundbreaking insider insight and hundreds of hardhitting interviews into a masterful tale of John O'Neill's quest to save America.
Review:
"[T]he political overtones never get in the way of this portrait of a dynamic yet enigmatic crusader who was as human as he was heroic." Publishers Weekly
Table of Contents:
Foreword: Mary Jo White
Acknowledgments
I. The Real Inspector Erskine
Prologue
1. On the Boardwalk
2. Thinking out of the Box
3. "My Kind of Town"
II. Fundamentalism and Fanaticism
4. In the Name of God
5. "You Can't Make This Shit Up"
6. The Birth of Al Qaeda
7. The Obstructionists
III. Domestic Troubles and Foreign Affairs
8. Silencing the Critics
9. O'Neill Takes Manhattan
10. The Man Who Knew
11. "They Can Strike Anytime"
IV. New York, New York
12. So Nice They Named It Twice
13. The Voice of God
14. The Briefcase Incident
V. "We're Due for Something Big"
15. The Tip of the Spear
16. Face-to-Face with the Enemy
17. Forced Out
18. September 11, 2001
Epilogue
Notes
List of Interviewees
Timeline
Photograph Credits
Index
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About the Author:
Murray Weiss, an award-winning investigative journalist and author, is the Criminal Justice Editor at the New York Post. During more than three decades with the Post and the New York Daily News, he has written extensively on law enforcement, organized crime, terrorism, criminal justice, and politics. He has appeared frequently on radio and television, including "Larry King Live" and "The O'Reilly Factor" and is co-author of Palm Beach Babylon. He lives in New York.
Synopsis:
This biography of the FBI's embattled counterterror warrior is the gripping tale of John O'Neill, who prophesied terrorism on U.S. soil and refused to give up the fight to save Americans around the world. 16-page insert.
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For many people, September 11 was the day the unimaginable happened. But one FBI agent, John O'Neill, had repeatedly warned the United States government that such an attack was possible. Ironically, O'Neill lost his own life on September 11, just days after beginning a new job as head of security for the World Trade Center.
As one of the FBI's foremost counter-terrorism experts, John O'Neill played a leading role in almost every major investigation of terrorism against Americans in the past decade, from the Oklahoma City bombing to the attack on the USS Cole. O'Neill was a dashing, larger-than-life character who irritated many members of U.S. and foreign governments with his aggressive, hands-on tactics and his insistent, repeated warnings about the possibility of an attack on U.S. soil.
His warnings were based on his diverse experience in fighting terrorism. He achieved a variety of high-responsibility positions in his career but was widely regarded by the United States and foreign governments as a gadfly who exaggerated the possibility of terrorism happening on American shores. O'Neill was intimately involved with counterterrorism in New York and abroad. He was appointed head of the FBI in New York a year after the 1993 bombing and was thus directly involved in the investigations of the most ambitious attack on US soil until that time. In 1996, O'Neill boldly went directly to King Fahd to gain more access to information on the attack in Dharan, Saudi Arabia and was ostensibly ejected from the country at the time. He headed the investigation into the USS Cole attack, and his department was accused of being "too aggressive" when they tried to wear down the Yemen government's reluctance to provide access to important information. O'Neill became convinced that oil interests caused the U.S. to repeatedly back down from accusing Saudi Arabia of their involvement with Bin Laden and other terrorist entities.
Disillusioned by his experiences with the FBI, O'Neill left governmental service to assume the position of chief of security for the Twin Towers in August 2001. On one of his first days on the job, September 11, he was attending a ceremony in honor of security at the World Trade Center when the first plane struck. O'Neill apparently survived the initial attack and was killed when he went back in to help with the emergency rescue efforts. Full of twists and turns, John O'Neill's tragic story reveals how one man's unheeded warnings came back to haunt the country he worked so hard to defend.
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