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Shows like The F.B.I. influenced O'Neill to dream of becoming an agent. He soon got a job as a fingerprinter to work his way up the ladder.
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The Soviet invasion sparked Osama bin Laden's ideals ot become more radical. O'Neill began to see a possible threat arising from the invasion.
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Without the creation of al-Qaeda, O'Neill would have never rose up the ladder due to his intuitiveness of al-Qaeda.
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This would be his first job involving acts of terrorism and would mature his intuition.
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Ramzi Yousef's act led to O'Neill's first big break in the bureau. O'Neill would later hunt down Yousef.
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Now a leader of a unit, O'Neill's first big break to catch Yousef will lead him to go up the ladder in the FBI.
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This new policy disabled the FBI and CIA from sharing information which would result in the carelessness to allow the 9/11 attacks.
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He warns officials that there is an oncoming threat outside of America and becomes consumed in his work.
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O'Neill would be sent out of the country to investigate; being the first time he went operational. This would feed his hunger of being a top agent.
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O'Neill gets a job in New York. This move will be fateful because he then would learn to love working in New York; a foreshadow of his to be job at WTC.
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This fatwa would result in the attacks of 9/11 and made O'Neill believe that al-Qaeda was not going to be quiet about it.
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O'Neill wanted to investigate the bombings thinking to find close ties and evidence suggesting al-Qaeda was involved. However, he was left out and this began O'Neill's fued with the CIA which would cause a case that would send O'Neill to retire.
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This capture will lead to O'Neill's investigation of Ghani Meskini and arrest. These two would later become witnesses for the government. O'Neill learns that there are sleeper cells within America.
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This meeting was the clue to stop the 9/11 attacks, however, vital information was kept away from FBI hands. This would eventually lead to O'Neill's demise.
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The pilots of the 9/11 attacks slip under the radar to learn how to fly. O'Neill tries to get information on them and they are put on suspicion.
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O'Neill begins to irresposibly lose important documents and items. This slows his progression in the FBI and leads to cases set against him which would later turn him to retire.
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This bombing would lead to O'Neill's last big break and one he would be grateful to lead.
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O'Neill turns back to Catholicism which makes him realize it is time to retire.
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Dick Clarke considers O'Neill as NCS which sends O'Neill to contemplate his future. O'Neill would refuse the job.
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A meeting between the CIA and FBI only resulted in a greater barrier that seperated the bureaus. This led to an increase of witholding information vital to the other player.
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O'Neill takes time to consider his future and decides to retire from the FBI and take a small job in the WTC.
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When the CIA witholds pictures to an important meeting in Kula Lampur, the FBI and O'Neill are unable to stop the arising 9/11 attacks.
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O'Neill decides to retire in need of space and rest from being a government worker.
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The pilots were put on a watchlist, never to be caught. This would lead to O'Neill's fate.
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O'Neill had just began work as a security official for the buildings and decided to be heroic. He went into the SOuth tower and never cme out, only to be found 10 days later.