John P. O'Neill

This alliance, though prolonged into the reign of Edward, led to nothing definitive, and we shall see in the next reign how the hopes then turned towards France were naturally transferred to Spain.

The only native name which rises into historic importance at this period is that of Shane, or John O'Neill, the Proud.

He was the legitimate son of that Con O'Neill who had been girt with the earls Baldrick by the hands of Henry VIII.

His father had procured at the same time for an illegitimate son, Faradoc, or Matthew of Dundalk, the title of Baron of Dungannon, with the reversion of the earldom.

in the irish parliament already referred to third and fourth philip and mary an act was passed declaring it a felony to introduce armed scotchmen to ireland or to intermarry with them without a license under the great seal this statute was directed against those multitudes of islesmen and highlanders who annually cross the narrow strait which separates antrim from argyll to harass the english garrisons along shore or to enlist as auxiliaries in irish quarrels In 1556, under one of their principal leaders, James, son of Connell, they laid siege to Carrickfergus, and occupied Lord Sussex some six weeks in the glens of Antrim.

Their leader finally entered into conditions, the nature of which may be inferred from the fact that he received the honor of knighthood on their acceptance.

John O'Neill had usually in his service a number of these mercenary troops, from among whom he selected sixty bodyguards, the same number supplied by his own clan.

In his first attempt to subject Tyr Conall to his supremacy in 1557, his camp near Raffo was surprised at night by a Calveg O'Donnell, and his native and foreign guards were put to the sword, while he himself barely escaped by swimming the Morn and the Fin.

Really knowledgeable.

He worked under John O'Neill in New York.

And Ali Soufan, who was the only agent who spoke Arabic, and so he was very knowledgeable.

And he testified to a congressional committee, why did bin Laden attack? And there's like three or four main reasons that bin Laden put out publicly.

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They just push you on down the road these days it seems like.

Oh, well listen, uh, uh, Frontline did a great expose, uh, but there's a lot more to the story, a CIA agent named John O'Neill stationed in Yemen.

And remember the Cole, and you also remember that they tried to blow one of the towers up in the basement bomb.

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The army of investigators is led by an extraordinary boss who commands fierce loyalty among his team.

John O'Neill.

One of America's top experts on a terrorist who few at this point have heard of, called Osama bin Laden, and the shadowy group he commands called Al-Qaeda.

O'Neal leads his massive team from the front, working tirelessly to deliver results.

The cooperative attitude of the Yemen government is rapidly evaporating.

And then the US team loses its charismatic leader.

The frustrated John O'Neill is called back to the US and then leaves the FBI to take up a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center.

It's been 33 days since the attack on the coal.

Belief often sets in when it is far too late.

Special Agent John O'Neill knew this all too well.

For years, as an expert in his field, he tried to sound the alarm of a looming terrorist threat against the United States that was growing stronger by the day.

Someone wanted to attack the United States.

He had the connections, and he knew the people who could have stopped it, and instead, they buried him.

I'm Andre, and this is Redacted History.

And today, we're telling the story of John O'Neill, the FBI agent who predicted 9/11 and died in it.

I had met with and attended a meeting, a ter- terrorism meeting, with the International Association of Chiefs in Washington, and John O'Neill was at that meeting, and we had a long discussion.

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O'Neill's days were spent analyzing fragments of information.

There was the story about two of Ramsey Youssef's Bojinka co-conspirators, Wali Khan Amin Shah and Abdul Hakim Murad.

In 1995, Murad told a story of Middle Eastern pilots training at U.S. flight schools and of a proposal to dive-bomb a jetliner into a federal building.

It seemed like the headquarters was a very negative place where they would find a million reasons why you couldn't do something as opposed to why you could do something.

James Kallstrom was the powerful boss of the FBI's New York office.

Watching from a distance, he saw O'Neill's attitude and expertise make enemies among the group that surrounded Louis Freeh.

Yeah, I'm sure there was some jealousy in the bureaucracy.