-Caveat Lector- This report says O'Neill took the job earlier this year. CNN's version quotes the NYC Police Commissioner as saying September 11th would have been O'Neill's first or second day at the job. Another version says O'Neill was hired for the job in August. I have a question.... Assuming all security personnel within the WTC complex are in radio contact, would the decision to command employees (over the loudspeaker system) to remain at their desks have come from the head of security? An interesting piece of info: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/special/terror/aftermath/1058676 Last month, FBI sources confirmed that O'Neill was under investigation after he left a briefcase containing classified information unattended in a hotel in Tampa, Fla., last year. The briefcase, which was recovered and returned to O'Neill, contained several documents that included a report outlining virtually every national security operation in New York. ------------ Other info: http://www.barnesreview.org/j/1996/7/TBR2.html July 1996 editorial: [snip] Last April 28 The Washington Times ran prominently (thereby gaining more neoconservative points) an ominous story on terrorist potential within the United States. It reported that Islamic radicals “pose new terrorist dangers to Ameri cans” and have “become the top priority of FBI counter-terrorism agents.” FBI counter-terrorism section chief John P. O’Neill said Islamic radicals (who have poured across our porous borders in recent decades) form “the greatest threat coming to us domestically." O’Neill said those involved in the bombing of New York’s World Trade Center were from Egypt, Pakistan, Ku wait and Iraq as well as from Islamic elements in this country. These people are well “networked” and consider the United States one of their “theaters of war.” O’Neill warns: “These people are characterized as free moving (largely financed by rackets and scams they operate here) . . . They can quickly assemble and quickly disperse, and they are extraordinarily hard to track.” ---------- >From a speech: http://www.nationalstrategy.com/speakers/oneill.html Excerpts from the Speech of JOHN P. O'NEILL Chief, International Terrorism Operations Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented at the National Strategy Forum on June 11, 1997 "...Law enforcement as most of you have seen in the last five years come out and law enforcement officials talked about that street crime cannot be dealt with just as a law enforcement problem. We need community policing. We need neighborhood watches. We need the activism to help us combat street crime. And it's pretty much the same way with acts of terrorism. We need to strengthen those soft targets as we investigate groups and individuals whom they try to attack us or attack our citizens. We also need to take a look at those logical places where terrorists may attack and try to strengthen them. " "...And that's much the same mindset in terms of terrorists picking their targets. So we can marry the public and the private sector together in terms of corporate security concerns. You know those places that are logical places for terrorists to hit, we like to do that marrying there. The other job is pretty simple to see, a little bit more difficult to carry out, and our job is relatively simple. It's to prevent acts of terrorism occurring against Americans in the United States and in those situations where an act has occurred have a massive response to be able to catch those people that are involved in the event and stop the -- that word terror, and the terrorists from sometimes stalling the American way of life. 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