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Who Killed John O'Neill?
KROLL INC.?
"I imagine the best possible suspect for who wired
those buildings has something to do with Kroll inc."
Meaning that they are not necessarily responsible for the demolition
itself but were involved. Kroll was responsible for security of the
entire WTC site until it went down in the 9/11 attacks. {Kroll Inc., is
a private investigation and security firm founded by Jules B. Kroll in
1972. Since then, it has expanded into all areas of corporate risk
mitigation including background screening, forensic accounting,
bodyguard services, corporate restructuring, and technology services}
As well, George W. Bush's brother was on the board of
directors of a company called Stratesec formerly known as Securacom
providing electronic security for the World Trade Center. {Marvin Bush
joined Securacom when it was capitalized by the Kuwait-American
Corporation, a private investment firm in D.C. that was the security
company's major investor, sometimes holding a controlling interest.
KuwAm has been linked to the Bush family financially since the Gulf War.
One of its principals and a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, Mishal
Yousef Saud al Sabah, served on the board of Stratesec.
The managing director at KuwAm, Wirt D. Walker III, was also a principal
at Stratesec, and Walker, Marvin Bush and al Sabah are listed in SEC
filings as significant shareholders in both companies during that
period. But none of these connections has been looked at during the
extensive investigations since 9/11.}
An article in New York Newsday documented the removal of bomb-sniffing
dogs just five days before the attack.
September 12, 2001
The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened
security alert was lifted at the landmark 110-story towers, security
personnel said yesterday.
Daria Coard, 37, a guard at Tower One, said the security detail had been
working 12-hour shifts for the past two weeks because of numerous phone
threats. But on Thursday, bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed.
"Today was the first day there was not the extra security," Coard said.
"We were protecting below. We had the ground covered. We didn't figure
they would do it with planes. There is no way anyone could have stopped
that."
Security guard Hermina Jones said officials had recently taken steps to
secure the towers against aerial attacks by installing bulletproof
windows and fireproof doors in the 22nd-floor computer command center...
Kroll's seasoned professionals were handpicked and recruited from
leading management consulting companies, top law firms, international
auditing companies, multinational corporations, special operations
forces, law enforcement and intelligence agencies. For more than 30
years, Kroll has helped companies, government agencies and individuals
reduce their exposure to risk and capitalize on business opportunities
So you've got Kroll, crawling with CIA and Government ties, among other
high up business interests (The US government and the weapons industry
is a major permanent contractor of the company.) And Stratesec, with
both relations to Bush's brother and Middle Eastern interest, heading
security. And you have security lowered and bomb sniffing dogs removed
five days before the attacks.
That my friend, needs some investigating.
Who was John O'Neill?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._O'Neill
John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was a top
American anti-terrorism expert who worked as a special agent and
eventually Assistant Deputy Director of Investigation until late 2001.
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
left to become the head of security at the World Trade Center, where he
died at age 49 in the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2002, O'Neill was
the subject of a Frontline documentary named "The Man Who Knew."
FBI career
O'Neill was hired on as an agent at the FBI in
1976.
Over the next 15 years, O'Neill worked on issues such as
white-collar crime,
organized crime, and foreign
counterintelligence while based at the Washington bureau. In
1991,
O'Neill received an important promotion and was moved to the FBI's
Chicago field office where he was assistant special agent in charge.
While there, he established the
Fugitive Task Force in an effort to promote interagency cooperation
and enhance ties between the FBI and local law enforcement. O'Neill also
supervised a task force investigating
abortion clinic bombings.
Returning to the Washington headquarters in 1995, he became chief of
the
counterterrorism section. On his first day, he received a call from
Richard A. Clarke, who had just learned that
Ramzi Yousef had been located in
Pakistan. O'Neill worked continuously over the next few days to
gather information and coordinate the successful capture and extradition
of Yousef. Intrigued by the case, O'Neill continued to study the 1993
bombing Yousef had masterminded and other information about Islamic
militants. He was directly involved in the investigation into the 1996
bombing of the
Khobar Towers in
Saudi Arabia. Frustrated by the level of cooperation from the
Saudis, O'Neill purportedly vented to FBI director
Louis Freeh, saying that they were "blowing smoke up your ass".
In 1996 and
1997,
O'Neill continued to warn of growing threats of terrorism, saying that
modern groups are not supported by governments and that there are
terrorist cells operating within the United States. He stated that
veterans of the insurgency by
Afghan rebels against the
Soviet Union's invasion had become a major threat. Also in 1997, he
moved to the FBI's
New York office, where he was one of the agents in charge of
counterterrorism and
national security.
By 1998,
O'Neill had become focused on
Osama bin Laden. When his friend
Chris Isham, a producer for
ABC News, arranged for an interview between bin Laden and
correspondent
John Miller, Isham and Miller used information put together by
O'Neill to formulate the questions. After the interview aired, O'Neill
pushed Isham hard to release an unedited version so he could carefully
dissect it.
Later that year, two
United States embassies were bombed in quick succession in
Nairobi,
Kenya,
and
Dar Es Salaam,
Tanzania. O'Neill hoped to be involved in the investigation because
he had gained a tremendous knowledge of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda
terrorist network. However, turf wars and dislike of O'Neill by some
superiors in Washington first meant that the FBI's New York office was
left out of the investigation, and later that O'Neill was left behind
when other New York-based agents were sent to the region to pick up
leads.
O'Neill's rise through the ranks at the bureau began to slow as his
personal style chafed others and he made a few slip-ups by losing a
bureau
cell phone and
Palm Pilot, improperly borrowing a car from a
safe house, and losing track of a briefcase with sensitive documents
for a short period. After being passed over for multiple promotions,
O'Neill was pleased to be assigned as commander of the FBI's
investigation into the
USS Cole bombing in October 2000. However, upon arriving in
Yemen,
he complained about inadequate security. As his team investigated,
O'Neill came into conflict with
Barbara Bodine, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen. The two had widely
divergent views on how to handle searches of Yemeni property and
interviews with citizens and government officials, and they only grew
further apart as time progressed.
After a month in Yemen, O'Neill returned to New York 20 pounds (9 kg)
lighter than when he left. He hoped to return to that country to
continue the investigation, but was blocked by Bodine and others. He
continued to investigate the Cole bombing, but eventually decided
that the FBI investigation in Yemen must be pulled out due to inadequate
security.A New York Times
report of August 19, 2001 suggested that O'Neill had been the
subject of an "internal investigation" at the FBI. The report suggested
that O'Neill was responsible for losing a briefcase with "highly
classified information" in it, containing among other things "a
description of every counterespionage and counterterrorism program in
New York". The briefcase was recovered shortly after its disappearance.
The FBI investigation was reported to have concluded that the suitcase
had been snatched by local thieves involved in a series of hotel
robberies, and that none of the documents had been removed or even
touched.[1]
Several people came to O'Neill's defense, suggesting that he was the
subject of a "smear campaign".[2]
The Times reported that O'Neill was expected to retire in late August.
NEW JOB AT WTC.
O'Neill started his new job at the World Trade Center in August 2001.
(According to New York City Police Commissioner
Bernard Kerik, "That Tuesday (9-11) was his first or second day on
the job.") He was appointed by Kroll Associates, namely by the
controversial managing director
Jerome Hauer. Later that month, he talked to his friend Chris Isham
about the job. Jokingly, Isham said, "Well, that will be an easy job.
They're not going to bomb that place again." O'Neill replied, "Well
actually they've always wanted to finish that job. I think they're going
to try again."
O'Neill's remains were recovered from the World Trade Center site on
September 22,
2001
and identified by
Jerome Hauer.[1]
Richard Clarke would later recall that only "parts of" O'Neill had
been recovered.[2]
In
ABC's
The Path to 9/11, he was played by actor
Harvey Keitel.
The unusual coincidence of O'Neill's death is often cited by
supporters of
9/11 conspiracy theories as evidence that the U.S. government was
involved in the planning and execution of the attacks.
There is extensive coverage of John O'Neill's anti-terrorist work at
the FBI and insights into his character and his private life in the book
The Looming Tower (2006) by
Lawrence Wright. |
