authorities told abc news that man was linked to a muslim group. they next capture most of the accomplices. but the mastermind fled. ramzi yousef is smart and radicalized. his uncle is khalid sheikh mohammed. a man who would later become a leader in an organization called al qaeda. i will lead the people back into the office. that will be our message to whoever did this. whatever you were trying to achieve, you fail. for the fbi was it these guys while dangerous, were not at the same level as the terrorists of the late 80s. they were wannabes, that of course would be a complete misunderstanding. tower 2 will be open for business, two weeks ahead of schedule. that says new york s mayor a testament to a sitting fear that
and we better not take them for granted because they are here to hurt us. narrator: but people at fbi headquarters thought john o neill was too much of a maverick, and they stopped listening to him. you could be flagged as a problem, and your career could pretty much be over. narrator: o neill left the fbi and took a new job as head of security at the world trade center. of all the places to go to work, and of all the ways that you could lose your life. narrator: tonight, frontline investigates the internal power struggle at the heart of the fbi s failure on september 11. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest
and we better not take them for granted because they are here to hurt us. narrator: but people at fbi headquarters thought john o neill was too much of a maverick, and they stopped listening to him. you could be flagged as a problem, and your career could pretty much be over. narrator: o neill left the fbi and took a new job as head of security at the world trade center. of all the places to go to work, and of all the ways that you could lose your life. narrator: tonight, frontline investigates the internal power struggle at the heart of the fbi s failure on september 11. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest
we re due for something big. narrator: his name was john o neill, and long before the world knew about osama bin laden, fbi agent o neill was obsessed with him. he was among the first people to see the bin laden threat. narrator: he warned of al qaeda. he said that we re at war with these people. narrator: he warned of the threat to the united states. and we better not take them for granted because they are here to hurt us. narrator: but people at fbi headquarters thought john o neill was too much of a maverick, and they stopped listening to him. you could be flagged as a problem, and your career could pretty much be over. narrator: o neill left the fbi and took a new job as head of security at the world trade center. of all the places to go to work, and of all the ways that you could lose your life. narrator: tonight, frontline investigates the internal power struggle at the heart of the fbi s failure on september 11. frontline is made possible b
had said to me, we re due, and we re due for something big. narrator: his name was john o neill, and long before the world knew about osama bin laden, fbi agent o neill was obsessed with him. he was among the first people to see the bin laden threat. narrator: he warned of al qaeda. he said that we re at war with these people. narrator: he warned of the threat to the united states. and we better not take them for granted because they are here to hurt us. narrator: but people at fbi headquarters thought john o neill was too much of a maverick, and they stopped listening to him. you could be flagged as a problem, and your career could pretty much be over. narrator: o neill left the fbi and took a new job as head of security at the world trade center. of all the places to go to work, and of all the ways that you could lose your life. narrator: tonight, frontline investigates the internal power struggle at the heart of the fbi s failure on september 11