The Looming Tower (78 page)

While he was dating Valerie in Chicago, O’Neill asked for an “exclusive relationship” with Mary Lynn Stevens in Washington, D.C.

In Washington, O’Neill also became involved with Anna DiBattista. “That guy is never going to marry you,” her priest warned her.

John O’Neill said good-bye to Daniel Coleman and his FBI teammates at a farewell coffee on the occasion of his retirement from the bureau on August 22, 2001. The next day he started work at the World Trade Center.

Above: After gaining the names of the hijackers from al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen, Ali Soufan (left, with Special Agent George Crouch) traveled to Afghanistan. Here he stands in the ruins of what was bin Laden’s hideout in Kabul.

O’Neill’s funeral was the catastrophe of coincidence that he had always dreaded. Here his mother, Dorothy, and his wife, Christine, leave St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church in Atlantic City. They were among a thousand mourners.

The ruins of the World Trade Center burned for a hundred days. John O’Neill’s body was found ten days after the 9/11 attack.

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